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SUMMARY:SPECTRAL CINEMA PRESENTS:  MARTHA (1974)
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 apted from a Cornell Woolrich story\, MARTHA follows Margit Carstensen as 
 Martha Heyer\, a lonely\, unwed librarian who\, after the death of her dom
 ineering father\, enters a sadomasochistic marriage with a wealthy enginee
 r\, Helmut (PEEPING TOM's Karlheinz B?hm)\, escaping one domestic prison o
 nly to be locked inside another. As Martha makes one concession after anot
 her\, submitting to ever more extreme acts of subjugation and degradation 
 to appease the man she loves\, her masochistic self-annihilation reaches i
 ts apparent limit when she begins to suspect that her husband intends to k
 ill her. Carefully threading the needle between high camp and horror\, MAR
 THA is a pitch-black satire of the power dynamics in traditional heterosex
 ual coupling\, pushing Sirkian melodrama to its most punishing extreme and
  putting the audience through an emotional and intellectual endurance test
 . A preeminent social critic within the New German Cinema coterie\, Fassbi
 nder frequently used cinema as a springboard to probe the moral rot at the
  core of postwar West German society in the wake of the Wirtschaftswunder\
 , that period of rapid reconstruction and economic boom. Within Fassbinder
 's Germany\, exploitation\, manipulation\, and self-interest are the rule\
 , and his protagonists alternately take advantage of\, and fall victim to\
 , oppressive social structures. Can one be complicit in one's own oppressi
 on? What drives a person to debase themselves and uphold a toxic status qu
 o when it seems to serve their interests? Originally filmed for West Germa
 n television\, MARTHA remains Fassbinder's most provocative and challengin
 g exploration of these questions. Its initial broadcast dodged the barrier
  of the movie house\, transmitting Fassbinder's corrosive critique of bour
 geois matrimony straight into middle-class German living rooms\, a tacitly
  audacious act of subversion in itself. A singular and sorely overlooked w
 ork of melodrama\, MARTHA features one of Margit Carstensen's most intense
  and heartbreaking performances\, cementing her collaboration with Fassbin
 der as one of cinema's great actor-director partnerships. Tickets: per per
 son. Showtime: 7:30pm. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. Tickets are 
 available at thegaptheatre.com and at the door. ABOUT SPECTRAL CINEMA: Spe
 ctral Cinema is a collaboration between programmers Dan Santelli and Adria
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