Werner Schroeter's Malina (1991) is exclusively on Mubi on October 22, 2020 in Mubi's Rediscovered series.Malina (1991), Werner Schroeter’s searing and serrated adaptation of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann’s 1971 cult novel, begins with a flurry of typing and the scratching of pen against paper. An anonymous woman writer (Isabelle Huppert), surrounded by papers, scrawls the letters of a feminine name not her own: Malina. Or as Humbert Humbert wrote of Lolita—Lo-lee-ta—Malina’s hypnotic chain of vowels guides “the tip of the tongue [on] a trip of three steps down the palate.” Ma-Lee.-Na. Flushed with the heat of obsession, she takes the word apart and rearranges its letters: Malina. Anima. Animal. Animus. The figure on the page—Malina (Mathieu Carrière), the woman’s housemate—then enters. Through the mirrors on the walls and doors, his figure becomes distorted and projected across every surface while the camera circles the maze-like estate.
- 10/22/2020
- MUBI
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