18 September 2025 – MUBI Notebook Feature – A Crisis or Something: Pia Frankenberg’s Uncertain Women

An article by Rafaela Bassili

“Working in Germany in the 1980s and early ’90s, during the golden age of romantic comedies in Hollywood, Frankenberg saw that the absurdity of the genre rested in the devil’s bargain it offered women: your freedom for security. Ha, ha.”

You can read the entire article here.

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