Fassbinder inherited Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic impulse and pushed it into a much more political, Brechtian, and self-conscious direction, as in The Marriage of Maria Braun or Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. His films had a huge impact on me.
Fassbinder inherited Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic impulse and pushed it into a much more political, Brechtian, and self-conscious direction, as in The Marriage of Maria Braun or Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. His films had a huge impact on me.