Presented by TheCinemaObsessive as part of an ongoing series: Booze on the Big Screen.
Appropriately, this is a bar screening, taking place in The Atrium Bar.
Ticket of No Return is a radical portrait of femininity, alienation and debauchery. Ulrike Ottinger presents us with Sie, an unnamed young woman, as she boozes her way through West Berlin, and into oblivion. In increasingly glamorous outfits, and increasingly bizarre bars, Sie is stalked by a Greek Chorus of judgemental women, who quote stats on the perils of alcohol.
A product of the ‘The New German Cinema' movement, Ticket of No Return has been tragically overlooked. This wonderfully bizarre journey and hypnotic scenes make it a classic of the movement, and one that deserves to be seen by a much wider audience.
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