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Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carriere, Hanns Zischler, Gabriele LaFari, Matthias Fuchs ... see more see more... , Shaun Lawton , Carola Regnier , Magdalena Montezuma , Robert Van Ackeren , Christiane B. Horn , Klaus Mikoleit , Achim Ruppel , Georg Tryphon , Salome , Matthias Fuchs (II)

Gudrun Landgrebe plays a housewife who abruptly leaves her husband for a life of prostitution. At first, she retains her staid, middle-class values, but before long she is one of the most sexually adv... read more read more...enturous women walking the streets. Soon she has more business than she can manage, forcing her to learn highly advanced bookkeeping skills to keep her business in order. While Gundrun indulges customers with fetishist inclinations, her AC-DC business partner Mathieu Carriere services both male and female clients. Becoming romantically involved themselves, Gundrun and Mathieu find that they can't manage a private and professional life at the same time. As the title suggests, one of the partners takes very drastic measures to express her discomfort with the conditions that prevail. Woman in Flames was an enormous moneymaker in Germany, where it was released as Die Flambierte Frau (which translates to the curiously gastronomic title A Woman Flambee). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
August 19, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

Exploring the intersection of sexual politics and cultural criticism. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
January 19, 2004
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The emotional impact of the film was about as flat as a pancake. Full Review

Vincent Canby
September 7, 2004
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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Emanuel Levy
June 15, 2005
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January 26, 2006
Time Out

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