Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

West Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Drama

What’s it all about: Happiness (and concealer) are in short supply when a lonely German cleaning woman meets a lonely Moroccan mechanic at a lonely cocktail bar.

First Encounter: first viewing

Prostitute Index: low (name-calling only)

Death By: cold hard stare

Relics: polyester, tube television

Heartthrob: El Hedi ben Salem

LoFi Magic: idle actors, sweeping camera moves

Makes me want to: listen to that song about Hansel and Gretel on Laurie Anderson’s “Strange Angels”

Candotti take: “Gossipy. I thought only Latins like gossip, not Germans.”

Worth a watch/rewatch: Yes 

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