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A Girl Called Rosemarie

1996, Movie, NR, 133 mins

A Girl Called Rosemarie: Review

GIRL CALLED ROSEMARIE, A | DAS MÄDCHEN ROSEMARIE
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A riveting retelling of the most famous unsolved crime in postwar German history. When we first see Rosemary Nitribitt (Nina Hoss) she's just another reform school strumpet, albeit one with American movie star looks. But Rosemarie has her eyes on the prize, in the form of rich industrialist Hartog (Heiner Lauterback); Rosemarie becomes a comfortably kept woman, but Hartog won't dump his upper crust fiance. Enter French businessman Fribert (the wonderfully oily Matthieu Carriere), with a proposition: He'll subsidize Rosemarie's life of luxury if she'll seduce Hartog's friends and business associates and secretly tape their encounters. But when push comes to shove, Rosemarie balks; she refuses to give the tapes to Fribert and tries to blackmail Hartog into marriage (yes, she loves the big galoot, Hollywood style). Next day, she turns up strangled, and nobody busts a gut to find out who dunnit. The 1958 ROSEMARY, released the year after Nitribitt's death, suggested that all her lovers were complicit, a la Murder on the Orient Express. But first time director Bernd Eichinger doesn't point fingers, instead implying that Rosemarie was doomed from the start, not because she dared to rise above her station, but because for all her hard-earned street smarts she didn't understand that in a battle between you and the establishment, the smart money is on the establishment. In any case, Eichinger spins this tawdry tail as an enthralling mix of kitchen sink realism and visual poetry, and in Hoss he's found a world class bimbo fatale. The deliciously pouty Foss can register more emotion with her eyebrows than anyone since Barbara Steele, and seems to particularly enjoy the scene in which she flashes a prospective john in a fancy hotel lobby from beneath a leopard skin coat. If this movie were in English, she'd be a superstar faster than you could say Sharon Stone. (In German, with English subtitles.) leave a comment --Steve Simels
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