Women on the Verge

Women on the Verge

2 Episodes

Female psyches warp and merge in these unsettlingly intimate chamber pieces from Ingmar Bergman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Women on the Verge
  • Persona

    Episode 1

    Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1966 • Sweden
    Starring Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson

    By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary perf...

  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    Episode 2

    Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1972 • West Germany
    Starring Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake

    In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional regi...