Wednesday | October 29, 2003 9:00 pm

The Left-Handed Woman
(Die Linkshändige Frau)

Screening on Film

Directed by Peter Handke.
With Bruno Ganz, Edith Clever, Gérard Depardieu.
West Germany, 1977, 35mm, color, 119 min.
German with English subtitles.

A woman living in the Paris suburbs struggles with a loveless marriage and apathy toward her family and friends as she spends her days quietly wandering about her house. Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke contributed screenplays to a number of films by director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). Here (in a film that Wenders produced), he provides both the scenario (adapting his novel of the same name) and direction for this meditative examination of domestic ennui.