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  • Adso Films
  • 1 h 51 m
  • Adso Films
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary She is Austrian, he Swiss; she is a poet, he a playwright; she is a daredevil yet vulnerable, he is adventurous but a little conservative. When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabb...

Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta

  • Adso Films
  • 1 h 51 m
  • Adso Films
  • 1 h 51 m

Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
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Summary She is Austrian, he Swiss; she is a poet, he a playwright; she is a daredevil yet vulnerable, he is adventurous but a little conservative. When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabb...

Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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0% Negative
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83
Feb 22, 2023
Director Margarethe von Trotta delivers a thoughtful exploration of love in a patriarchal society, which ends up being surprisingly hopeful considering how cruel reality can be.
By Marco Vito Oddo FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 22, 2023
That love and suspicion can coexist is the most profound unspoken truth in “Ingeborg Bachmann,” and Von Trotta’s biggest strength here is drawing out that paradox in the relationships between men and women, whether they are artists or not.
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70
Feb 22, 2023
In the end, there’s perhaps just too much sheen to this heartfelt portrait for it to really bite. But it remains a touching tribute to a woman who, von Trotta suggests, pitted a radical desire to question everything against the comfortable certainties of the men who surrounded her.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 22, 2023
The film is so refined and filled with good taste, not to mention poetry citations and dialogue rendered with quotations marks, that it often feels inert.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 22, 2023
In many ways, Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert feels like the exact opposite of the project we ought to be attempting, which is to reclaim the work of women of genius who are in danger of falling into obscurity, without reducing their already threatened legacies to mere romantic biography
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Amour Fou Luxembourg, Amour Fou Vienna, Heimatfilm, Tellfilm, ZDF/Arte
Duration 1 h 51 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 1 Nomination

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