Rainer Werner Fassbinder
3 titles · european arthouse
Fassbinder made more than forty films before he died at thirty-seven, most of them melodramas about love used as power. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant has a successful fashion designer fall for a young woman. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, a lonely widowed cleaning lady marries a much younger Moroccan worker. The Marriage of Maria Braun follows a young woman through the German economic miracle after the war.
Signature
- Sirkian melodrama turned against German society.
- Love as exploitation.
- Hanna Schygulla and a regular company.
- Framing through doors and mirrors.
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