Fassbinder's "Angst vor der Angst"

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I have heard some consider that work one of the director's best. I would not put it that high in the category, but it is a strong film giving us, hopefully happy and healthy, strong and with good jobs, people, an insight into the dark world of depression.
And frankly... with that mother-in-law, who would not feel like succumbing to the worst kind of it, grabbing the bottle... and hitting her on the head?
It IS a dark world down there, and many directors have given us their renditions of that hell, some quite and forever memorable like the Repulsion, and while Angst never reaches quite that sort of abis, it is balancing on the very narrow edge, where a small event can tip the scale in either direction with ease.
It is that brittle nature of the human soul that makes the film interesting, and while not much is really happening (even things like a brief affair are not much more than a bird hitting your window... a truly transitionary event...), the tension is strong and it is clear the breakpoint is but a short shrow away.
There you will have another chance of meeting Brigitte Mira, the Fassbinder's Kathy Bates, who you probably would never forget after her work in his contraversial Fear Eats the Soul.

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Topic - Fassbinder's "Angst vor der Angst" - Victor Khomenko 06:51:38 06/10/05 (2)

Re: Fassbinder's "Angst vor der Angst" - Analog Scott 09:18:39 06/10/05 (0)

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