‘Companies don’t want to
invest in women of your age. You’re almost thirty.’
Volker
Schlondorff is of those directors who deserved to be better known compared to
the other torchbearers and more popular compatriots of German New Wave. Apart
of his much lauded Cannes winning, ‘The Tin Drum’, his other brilliant films of
early phase remained unnoticed for many of cinelovers. Here is a fine and worthy to notice film of
Schlondorff’s earlier phase that remain under noticed for many.
‘Strohfeuer’ aka ‘Free Woman’ is thoughtful feminist
film that mirrors the subordination of the second sex in contemporary society with
irony and truth. The protagonist of the film is a divorced woman of thirties struggling
to get child possession and settle her own identity, independence and self
fulfillment. It examines the impersonal patriarchal society which from time
immemorial pushed male dominance and their preconceived notions of domesticated
and passive stand towards woman. In a world where woman is more an object than
subject, how society treats a woman who’s bold, attractive, free in spirit and
wanted to restart his career after years of being a housewife? The film has unobtrusive
camerawork, well restrained and fine act by Von Trotta and explored feminist
angles in society, religion, art, myths and life in general.
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