
Wrong Move
1975

Representation Score
Excellent
1979
Director
Ulrike Ottinger
Runtime
107 minutes
Average Rating
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Ulrike Ottinger’s avant-garde work dismantles traditional cinematic hierarchies. By prioritizing female autonomy and queer-coded aesthetics, the film moves away from conventional storytelling structures. The production uses a diverse, international ensemble to challenge Western-centric perspectives and capitalist frameworks of travel. However, the film's focus on aestheticized texture and psychological abstraction leaves little room for the representation of physical or neurodivergent identities.
Category Breakdown
The film explores fluid sexuality and non-traditional desire through queer-coded aesthetics. It presents non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth intimacy as a fundamental part of the human experience, challenging traditional narratives.
The film centers on female subjectivity and erotic ability to act, effectively subverting traditional gender hierarchies. Women are portrayed as complex, desiring subjects rather than passive objects within a male-centric narrative.
An international ensemble challenges Western homogeneity through a global nomadism aesthetic. The casting refuses to center a singular Anglo-Saxon perspective, critiquing the colonial commodification of culture.
The narrative functions as a postmodern critique of Western institutional norms and colonial frameworks. It uses a dreamlike presentation to deconstruct objective morality and the capitalist structures of exoticism.
The film focuses on existential and psychological exploration rather than specific physical or neurodivergent identities. There is no dedicated focus on disability within the stylistic framework.
Present on Screen
Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

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