It would be easy to dismiss this film as another sleazy sex opera from Cavani. Eventually, this self-destructive relationship becomes harder and harder to resist in spite of the personal dangers to the individuals and their respective families and political causes. ![]() This leads to a rather unusual ménage a trois with each member of the triangle becoming more and more jealous of the others. She is publicly quiet and demure, but in private, flamboyantly bisexual and seduces the wife of a high Nazi official-and eventually the husband himself. THE BERLIN AFFAIR tells the story of Mitsuko, daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany during the Nazi era. For me, she is the modern purveyor of film noir at it's darkest. Her controversial NIGHT PORTER was unjustly accused of being deplorable, and insult to the intelligence of the average moviegoer, an offense to Jews and women, and generally condemned by everyone of cinematic importance. ![]() Her films tend to show sleazy low life characters-even when they live in palatial mansions. It has long been fashionable in critical circles to bash the films of Liliana Cavani.
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