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AKA: In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden
Year: 1978
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Volker Spengler (Elvira), Ingrid Caven (Zora), Gottfried John (Anton), Elisabeth Trissenaar (Irene), Eva Mattes (Marie-Ann), Günther Kaufmann (Bodyguard)
Country: Germany, European Cinema
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 02:04:23
Genres: Misery-Depressing, Gay-Transsexual, Violence Against Animals
Plot – Spoilers:
In a Year with 13 Moons dramatizes director Fassbinder’s guilt and pain following the suicide of his former partner and actor, Armin Meier.
Elvira is a lonely and confused transwoman who’s rejected by gay prostitutes as she no longer has a cock. Her lover of several years now finds her fat and repulsive and walks out on her. Elvira’s current hopelessness is compounded by the fact that years before her transition, she lived and thought like a straight man and was married with a daughter before she fell in love with her boss, Anton. On a whim that he would love her back if she were a woman, she transitioned, only to be rejected by Anton. Elvira was most likely a lebensborn child, and so the fact that Anton is a Jew adds another angle to their relationship.
The movie follows a few days in Elvira’s life as she drifts between uncovering her childhood at an orphanage, clumsily trying to reconnect with her daughter, and desperately seeking acknowledgement from ex-lovers and even strangers.
While the first half of the movie has some scenes of great depth that capture her pathetic existence, the latter half includes incoherent ramblings by different characters that are probably meant to allegorically represent Elvira’s downward spiral. There is also a notorious sequence at a slaughterhouse featuring cows.
The story of a post-op transsexual who, more or less, got his dick cut off on a whim because a guy he had the hots for said he liked women. Having to deal with the consequences of his actions he seems to realize, after reliving his past, that he is really a gay or even bi male trapped in a “woman’s” body. There are some sections of the film that I feel should have been left on the cutting room floor. There is a super long segment when Zora is telling Elvira a bullshit bedtime story, then Zora watches TV while Elvira is sleeping, listening to people talk about their love relationships going sour for 10 to 15 minutes. Next there is a guy who stands on the street 8 hours a day looking at Anton’s 16th floor window and he gives a long rambling soliloquy about why he’s upset. It gets real weird when Elvira gives the “Bergen-Belsen” password and gets in to Anton’s office where they end up doing a Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis dance number, I’m assuming to demonstrate what a kidder Anton can be. Ultimately it is a very weird and sad film. I loved the ending with the record skipping and the sudden just dead stop. 4 stars.
This one it’s just straight up sad…