Rainer Werner Fassbinder was the most innovative practitioner of
New German Cinema. He worked at breakneck speed and in fourteen
years made forty-four films, including Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978). Fassbinder
ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger
limitations of humanity, and his films detail the desperate
yearning for love and freedom and the many ways in which society
defeats that desire.
In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the
director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his
insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working
habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended family-
including his mother, a string of male lovers, lovelorn women, and
even a pair of frustrated wives-with his intoxicating and prolific
imagination. This book, like Fassbinder's often-used image of the
mirror, brilliantly reflects the sexual, political, and
overwhelmingly human contradictions inherent in the life of this
intensely creative man and the remarkable films he directed.
Christian Braad Thomsen is a Danish filmmaker and scholar.
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