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In a city increasingly confused by immigration, tourism, and the many paths and 
pitfalls that lie in between (1), one has to make things a bit more complicated 
and remind oneself that there are legitimate forms of arrival that don't have   
anything to do with any of this. Here is the case of a traveler who has vowed   
to never depart, but at the same time comes without the slightest intention to  
stay. She even makes a friend, who will help her to disintegrate from society.  
It's a drinking film, queer cinema avant la lettre, another tale from the       
Westberlin Heimatfront (2), staged with a very Fassbinder sense for kitsch and  
drama that hardly -- the opening shots of Tegel at its originally intended      
passenger capacity may be the only exception -- allows for nostalgia. It's      
1979, and even though more cinematic evidence of that era exists, not many have 
captured it with the cold compassion of Ulrike Ottinger. She's also gotten the  
tempo right, what her film proposes is a pretty slow mode of navigating Berlin. 
The guy who made Run Lola Run should have taken a look at this and given up.    
                                                                                
(1) https://youtube.com/results?search_query=kottbusser+tor (just for starters) 
(2) https://piratecinema.org/screenings/20150726                                
                                                                                
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                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                           sunday may 8, 8:30 pm
                                                                                
                                   bildnis einer trinkerin / aller jamais retour
                                    ulrike ottinger, 1979, 109 min, english subs
                                                        https://0xdb.org/0078861
                                                                                
                                                                  12 seats, rsvp
                                                          first come first serve
                                                       location in separate mail
                                                                                
                                                                       trailers:
                                  https://piratecinema.org/trailers/#20160508-01
                                  https://piratecinema.org/trailers/#20160508-02
                                                                                
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