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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)

Fassbinder

Last night I watched Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) for the first time in six or seven years. I’m relatively unfamiliar with Fassbinder and have never had much of a sense of his style. What struck me last night was how avant-garde, formally, Ali is.

The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant (Fassbinder, 1972)

The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant (1972)

The title character (played by Margit Carstensen) is a successful fashion designer whose happiness has been shattered by the death of her first husband and by a bitter divorce from her second.