KLUGE IN THE BEGINNING: PART TIME WORK OF A DOMESTIC SLAVE

Excerpt from the film KLUGE IN THE BEGINNING: PARTTIME WORK OF A DOMESTIC SLAVE. The sixth feature film by Alexander Kluge, architect of the New German Cinema, is also one of his most remarkable. Once again, Kluge works with Godardian distanciation devices (voiceover commentary, intertitles) to playfully examine a social problem, specifically women s liberation. The director s sister, Alexandra, plays the titular domestic slave, a young housewife, mother, parttime abortionist, and wouldbe labor activi