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mooniac
20Nov11
This is a story of pure love standing strong amongst bigotry. Tolerance and forgiving is one of those elements that love is made of.
Cristian
8Nov11
In this film, Fassbinder I believe, illustrates different aspects of the life as an immigrant...in all it's entirety: the way they live,work and love. The relationship the couple has among themselves and with citizens of that country/ other foreigners. This dynamic is presented in its most basic truthfulness, managing to convey a wholesome portrayal of what it means to be a human being.
RichyM
25Oct11
Una bellísima puesta en escena, Los espacios cuadrados que encierran a los personajes y los lugares vacíos reflejan el interior de Ali y Emmi. Con un tono cómico nos presenta la patética vida del Marroquí y la limpiadora, y nos permite establecer una conexión muy fuerte con ellos durante la hora y media. La felicidad no siempre es divertida, pero con este film de Fassbinder, lo es.
trolley freak
19Sep11
Shot quickly in less than two weeks, this Fassbinder film is an undoubted masterpiece. Brigitte Mira gives a heartbreaking performance as the lonely middle-aged cleaner involved in an inter-racial love affair and later marriage with a Morrocan immigrant more than twenty years younger than her. Facing total hostility from friends, family and work colleagues, will their unlikely love story survive? Bravura filmmaking..
Hugo Resendiz Saldivar
5Sep11
Una mirada a un problema de países con inmigración. Es una historia de amor muy rara, pero a la vez su perspectiva es muy interesante, los junto una casualidad, pero cada quien era justo lo que necesitaba el otro, se complementaron a pesar de todo. Te hace pensar en como es el ser humano y uno identifica eso en su familia, amigos y vecinos.
AnıL
24Jul11
As a turkish guy, I can say that we've grown up with these kinds of stories since our childhood, especially after "worker immigration" which had happened at '60s with the demand of German government. So the story may be interesting, appealing(or whatever you call it) to most of you, but not for us. But on the other hand, film is quite informative about how those immagrants or minorities have felt in another country.
chrisperez
23Jun11
The restraint in this movie is not stressed well enough. It feels fassbinder but quite unlike his usual 'style'. I want to watch this again!
Drew Boggemes
15Jun11
A sweet, concisely directed tale of taboo romance that may lack Fassbinder's usual aesthetic flair, but due to its eloquence and sociopolitical astuteness, Ali is a captivating and soul massaging experience. And while it may not qualify as a "message movie" per se, there is a simple, albeit profound truth at its core; In the absence of compassion, society crumbles under the weight of its own prejudice.
catch_33
8Jun11
An incredibly moving film about love born out of alienation and loneliness and the prejudice that almost threatens to tear it apart. Melodramatic, simplistic but oh so expressive and culturally critical. The moments between the two are so well crafted that there needn't even be any dialogue. Brilliant.
Mantvydas Mačijauskas
22May11
,,Angst essen Seele auf" is probably the only film, where Fassbinder is so sympathetic to his heroes. I don't like this film very much. However it's a great tribute to Douglas Srik's ,,All that heaven allows". I think that his other melodramas such as ,,Fox and his friends", ,,Merchant of four seasons" or ,,Martha" are better. But it's still my own opinion.
actingoutpolitics
27Oct10
“Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder provides an elaborate analysis of human proneness for ethnic prejudices. Fassbinder himself plays the role of a right wing lout who needs prejudices to aggrandize himself in order to feel he is worthy part of a greatest nation (Germany) and a greatest political system (Democracy). Fassbinder’s protagonist is poor, uneducated in liberal arts and doesn’t have any particular achievements. For him to feel superior over other people is the only way to feel himself as somebody, to have self-respect and be proud of his existence. Special attention Fassbinder pays to the analysis of two aspects of any ethnic prejudice: directly hateful (repressive), and with an economic face (exploitative), and how each of them injures in its own way the soul of its victims. Also Fassbinder focuses on people’s unconscious use of human sexuality as a compensation for psychological trauma as a result of non-recognition of a common humanity in individuals and groups targeted by ethnic prejudices. The analysis of the relationships between Ali and Emmy and between Ali and a bar owner gives Fassbinder an opportunity to represent two kinds of love between a man and a woman: love based on psychological wholeness with a sexual component, and love based on the emotional need to have a sexual relationship as a compensation for a lack of social or personal non- or under-recognition. Contrary to the opinion of many critics, “Ali” is not a weepy but a serious research by the way of ascetic dramatization into common psychological roots of xenophobia in social and personal relations. Please, visit: www.actingoutpolitics.com - to read essays about films by Godard, Bunuel, Bergman, Bresson, Resnais, Kurosawa, Pasolini, Alain Tanner, Bertolucci and Cavani (with analysis of shots from the films). By Victor Enyutin
JP. Schmidt
17Oct10
Fassbinder continues with each film of his I see to strike emotions in my person that I never seem to quite feel anywhere else. The camerawork and lighting in this film are too pitched perfect, not in a bad way. It just feels like a master's stroke with a brush that after seeing it you can find no better approach or one that would be filled with as much confidence as the one before you. Wonderful.
John Ross Bowie
19Jun10
I've never seen anything like this -- watched in the class of Auteurs founder Frank Tomasulo and it has stayed with me for close to twenty years. And it's even better when you look at it next to Sirk,
In An Expression Of The Inexpressible
26Feb10
Very stiff and stereotypical in more ways - not just the first-hand mythical prototypes of how people react(ed) on the couples relationship, but also how both see the other and the society around. It's just too simple and gives the movie quite a pinch of an educational story for children. But sure it's an important theme
