Frauen in New York, Women in New York, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce s The Women. It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women there are forty women in the play and no men. The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being antiwomen (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work against the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upperclass women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.