Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the few real badasses of cinema, created in Ali: Fear Eats The Soul an utterly beautiful and (forgive the term) humanistic melodrama that draws from and expounds upon Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows through inspiration from Godard, framing-within-framing, and a realistically complex and somehow utopian picture of the human need for another that work together to blow one’s mind to discover that it was all filmed in fifteen days.
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