London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009 Friday, April 3, highlights Schedule and synopses from the Llgff website Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia Directed by: Ulrike Ottinger Cast: Delphine Seyrig Xu Re Huar, Inès Sastre Country: West Germany Year: 1989 Running time: 165min All aboard the Trans-Siberian railway where you’ll find titled ladies, Broadway stars, camp cabaret acts and a Mongolian princess who has come to kidnap them all. This sumptuous epic from Ottinger ranges from the obvious artifice of a studio film to an almost documentary realism when the film moves from train to the glorious vista of the Mongolian landscape. As the culture clash between the Western women and their Mongolian ‘hosts’ intensifies a sweet love affair blossoms between the princess and the young Giovanna, the Johanna of the title. Like all Ottinger’s films this boasts amazing visuals, elaborate costumes and outstanding roles for women to portray, none better than...
- 4/1/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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