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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Hilarious!

Gunleik,

have you ever seen a German film by R.W. Fassbinder’s movie "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (German:Angst essen Seele aug)".

Keep in mind it's not a French movie at all, it's a German film that means it doesn't really matter from which county or nation is coming.

It's all about humans and how they manage their lives in a certain social and historical circumstances...

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Fassbinder first gained international success with Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (Angst essen Seele auf).
This film was shot in 15 days in September 1973 with a very low budget ranking among Fassbinder's quickest and cheapest.
Nevertheless, the impact on Fassbinder’s career and foreign cinema remains cemented as a great and influential work.
It won the International Critics Prize at Cannes and was acclaimed by critics everywhere as one of 1974's best films.
Fear Eats the Soul was loosely inspired on Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. It details the vicious response of family
and community to a lonely aging white cleaning lady who marries a muscular, much younger black Moroccan immigrant worker.
The two are drawn to each other out of mutual loneliness. When their relationship becomes known,
they experience various forms of hostility and public rejection. Gradually, their relationship is tolerated,
not out of real acceptance, but because those around the good hearted old lady realize their ability to exploit her is threatened.
As the external pressures over the couple begin to subside, internal conflicts surface.

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Thanks San!

Sounds like one to watch to set this silliness in context!

Lol

I love arty strange movies.
I just happen to see the ironical side to it...

:))
 
Cute.

BTW, I've always love "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul". Along with "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?" it is my favorite early Fassbinder. That was from his crazy prolific period when fueled by many drugs he would spit out movies as fast as Michael Ballhaus could reload the film mags.
 
Funny clip! As if Harold & Maude and Bergman's Persona had a love child, with goats! Très drôle. :)
 
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