MM25: It’s a Miserable Life - The Films of RW Fassbinder

Hesse and Will are joined by Eddie from the Extended Clip podcast to talk the tender and merciless work of German New Wave master RW Fassbinder with two searing films. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, a beautiful and unlikely romance between a Moroccan guest worker and an elderly German woman is threatened by the suffocating prejudice of German society, and In A Year With 13 Moons, a transgender woman takes stock of her life and attempts to reconnect with her past. In both films Fassbinder uses the genres of melodrama and tragedy as vessels for his unique mastery of style and deeply personal exegesis of love, guilt and pain.

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