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In a Year with 13 Moons

Fassbinder was in utter despair in 1978 after the suicide of his lover but somehow he managed to rouse himself from grief to write, direct, produce, design, shoot and edit this intensely personal film. Ironically, Spengler gives possibly the best 'male' performance in a Fassbinder film as the transgendered Elvira. Fassbinder thought so highly of the end result that he ranked it as the second best film he ever made...