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"The Practice of Love"
1984
Directed by Valie Export

"A dazzling cinematic tour-de-force, combining a thriller narrative with experimental images to tell the story of Judith, a journalist, whose investigation of a murder implicates her two male lovers (an arms dealer and a psychiatrist). Through these relationships, Judith discovers that in a world of male power struggles, love is complicit, marginal or impossible. The film makes a stunningly coherent indictment of male-dominated society." (National Film Theatre, London). Valie Export is "one of the five or six truly original filmmakers working in Europe today who have not been recognized widely and turned into classical 'auteurs,' and this is why each of her films seems initially disturbing, jarring, 'difficult' " (Gary Indiana, East Village Eye). German with English subtitles.
90 minutes.