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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 12A

Part of Garden Cinema Staff Picks 2022
Part of New German Cinema
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1974, 93m.

Winner: Best classic title in The Garden Cinema staff picks poll 2022!


The wildly prolific 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 lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

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Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann

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