{"id":4310,"date":"2007-09-19T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2021-02-05T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:08:31","slug":"woman-in-flames-a-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"Woman in Flames, A (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I wonder just how far I can go&#8230; I&#8217;m open to anything!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Poster-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Poster-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Poster-75x128.jpg 75w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Poster-159x270.jpg 159w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Poster.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA dissatisfied housewife (Gudrun Landgrebe) becomes an upscale call girl, and soon is in demand as a dominatrix. She falls madly in love with a gigolo (Mathieu Carriere), but after they move in together, they quickly grow jealous of each other&#8217;s clients.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German Films<\/li>\n<li>Jealousy<\/li>\n<li>Prostitutes and Gigolos<\/li>\n<li>S&#038;M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis &#8220;satire&#8221; on postwar bourgeois values (an enormous box office hit in its native Germany) falls flat on nearly every count. Although Landgrebe is easy on the eyes (and not a horrible actress), we care very little about what happens to her, and her obsessive romance with the boring Carriere never rings true. The dialogue &#8212; not helped any by the awful English dubbing on the video release &#8212; is inane and cliched, and the titular denouement makes absolutely no sense. Avoid this one if possible. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beautiful Gudrun Landgrebe as Eva<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Gudrun.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Gudrun.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Gudrun.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Gudrun-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Gudrun-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Woman-in-Flames-Gudrun-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083949\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/02\/03\/movies\/screen-a-woman-in-flames-the-hazards-of-loving-a-gigolo.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/a-woman-in-flames\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wonder just how far I can go&#8230; I&#8217;m open to anything!&#8221; Synopsis: A dissatisfied housewife (Gudrun Landgrebe) becomes an upscale call girl, and soon is in demand as a dominatrix. She falls madly in love with a gigolo (Mathieu Carriere), but after they move in together, they quickly grow jealous of each other&#8217;s clients. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: German Films Jealousy Prostitutes and Gigolos S&#038;M Review: This &#8220;satire&#8221; on postwar bourgeois values (an enormous box office hit in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=4310\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69094,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/69094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}