Kristina talking pictures

"In this film, Rainer moves outside gender and sexual struggles to address global issues like genocide and environmental negligence within a plot involving the relationship between a circus performer and her on again-off again lover. The tone is unmistakably mournful, the personal and the political intimately linked. Constantly digressing but never losing its way, the story regularly challenges the viewer by rendering palpable the difficult commitment to social justice on micro and macro levels."@en
"A narrative film inasmuch as it contains a series of events that can be synthesized into a story. (A European woman liontamer comes to New York and takes up choreography). The film can also be viewed in terms of its reflections on art, love and catastrophe sustained by the voices of Kristina, the heroine-narrator and Raoul, her lover. (Circulates)."@en
"In this, her third feature film, Rainer continues her preoccupation with the contradictions between the public and private persona as it afflicts the woman artist. At the film's center is Kristina (played by Rainer and several other actresses), a lion tamer from Budapest who comes to New York to become a choreographer, and Raoul, her seaman lover."@en