Picking up where Lives of Performers left off, Rainer’s second, landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary feminism about the relationship between the representation of romantic clichés and sexual repression. Borrowing techniques from soap opera, the formally fractured yet exuberant Film About a Woman Who… combines voiceover, intertitles, simulated “still” images, and dinner-table discussions to provocative, often contradictory effect. Long silences and Babette Mangolte’s fluid black-and-white images only heighten the darting, doubt-ridden, highly dislocating drama.

Film About a Woman Who... has been restored in 4K by the Museum of Modern Art and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber is the sole worldwide distributor of this film.

This title is a digital-only release.

Other Rainer films include:

LIVES OF PERFORMERS (1972)
KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES (1976)
JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971 (1979)
THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN (1985)
PRIVILEGE (1990)
MURDER AND MURDER (1996)

You can purchase the entire collection here.