The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising “gold, love and adventure” to all who come aboard her…

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an…

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence…