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Synopsis
Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their respective lovers.
Cinematic DNA
Haynes himself has said that he thinks of Fassbinder as 'the most important German filmmaker after the war' and that Safe was in some ways inspired by Fear of Fear (1975) and Chinese Roulette (1976), two of Fassbinder’s bleakest movies about women.
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