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DeJardinblum and 3 others like this
Christopher
31Aug11
SO GOOD, so beautiful. A really wonderful, persistent music score. My first Fassbinder film and I cannot wait to see more. I want to watch this back-to-back with Sunset Boulevard.
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David Huxley
10Aug11
Fassbinder's last great film, shot in gorgeous black & white, with wonderful performances by all the actors, especially Hilmar Thate as the reporter. It's a fictionalized account of a true story, but is told in usual Fassbinder style: imagine "Sunset Boulevard" as if directed by Douglas Sirk, with undercurrents of Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and Welle's "Citizen Kane". Sad to think within a year Fassbinder would be dead.
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wmk
16May11
I've seen this perhaps ten times and remain most fascinated by the presence of the American serviceman (who says little as he crashes most of the scenes at Frau Doktor Katz's clinic) and the American music that anachronistically cuts into Ms. Voss' dramatic and ongoing decline.
comeandsee
4Jan11
a brillant part of fassbinder's crowning trilogy. the film contains another mesmirzing lead performance, as well as an allegory of veronika as celebrated during the war, but hidden away afterwards just like germany's past. also, this film is a clear suggestion that not everyone gained from the economic miracle. a beautiful piece in crisp black and white too. fassbinder is a great auteur and this is a masterpiece.
Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
2Oct10
It's like a Hollywood melodrama crossed with Kafka with some undertones of lesbianism. I love it.
