ah it is nice to see that at least one other person has seen this film. i remember going to see it at the wonderful Academy cinema in oxford street that used to show a lot of European films. i remember the main character was a painter who used to paint known paintings in black and white until they went down into the basement and found her "real" stuff - a bit like satellite pictures of planets that made a great impression on me in my early 20s. an exhibition of her work is arranged, amid memories that her brother had also had a painting exhibition some years before and had committed suicide because of the exposure. like a lot of German films (of which i'm no expert) this was a v moving and powerful film because understated and unsentimental and it trusts its audience enough not to dictate to them how to respond. am reminded a bit of a powerful German play called The Sun Shines On All Alike ps. just read the synopsis of this film and it doesn't appear to be the one that i remember!("Sheer Madness"?)
