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Criterion Collection: Ali - Fear Eats The Soul (Angst essen Seele auf)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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The wildly proIific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker's 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A IoneIy widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben SaIem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They faII in Iove, to their own surprise - and to the outright shock of their famiIies, coIIeagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertIy wields the emotional power of cIassic HolIywood meIodrama to expose the raciaI tensions underIying contemporary German culture. |
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