New German Cinema
On the occasion of the 2009 New York premiere of "The Korean Wedding Chest", with Ottinger to be in attendance, "The New York Times" characterized the director as, "[d]uring the 1980s heyday of the New German Cinema, having constituted a one-woman avant-garde opposition to the sulky male melodramas of Wenders, Fassbinder and Herzog, her films being long, discursive and wildly inventive."