The Public Woman 4K 1984 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

The film tells the story of an inexperienced actress who lands a role in Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed. She has to enter into an intimate relationship with the pseudo-German director of the production, who then strips her of her role. In real life, she repeats the path of her character. Having become the girlfriend of a Czech emigrant, she falls victim to a political murder organized by the director of the play.

Review 4K Movie

Struggling actress Ethel (Valérie Kaprisky) does private nude modeling sessions for photographer André. Famed director Lucas Kessling wants her as lead in his adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed". They get into a relationship and a surreal film production. He recruits dishwasher Milan Mliska (Lambert Wilson) to be her possessive disturbed husband as reality and fiction blend into this unreal journey.

This is an unreal film. Kaprisky is sexually unencumbered and magnetically charismatic. She does plenty of strut-walking. She powerfully fills the screen. Lucas Kessling is an intriguing mercurial character. The surrealism is interesting at first but it gets maddeningly unreal. The wild swings and crazy 180 turns frustrated me. There is one scene in particular where Ethel faints and completely recover immediately with everybody ignoring what happened. It's a cheap kind of surrealism. It's almost student film level. Other parts like her nude photography is unforgettable. At some point, the weird surreal twists and turns bored me by their unhinged-nature.