Petra von Kant, a successful designer who has just separated from her second husband, He lives with his secretary Marlene, helper and almost slave. When one of her best friends introduces her to Karin, an opportunistic young woman from humble origins, Petra falls madly in love with her and promises to make her an international model.. The two women then begin a stormy relationship..
The bitter tears of Petra von Kant (written feverishly during a flight between Berlin and Los Angeles and released in 1971) belongs to the most brilliant period of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The play, which the following year would become a film, was praised by international critics for its stylized portrait of romantic heartbreak in a purely feminine universe.. German playwright, who revitalized the Brechtian heritage with American melodrama, deploys all its artillery to tell us about loneliness and domination in this story of sapphic love that grows in ellipses and silences. Rakel Camacho covers and directs, with a renewing pulse loaded with images, this classic from the European repertoire on power relations, the unhealthy obsession and toxic need to see ourselves accepted in the eyes of others.
