âEnfant Terribleâ Review: I Can Sleep When Iâm Dead
The packed biographical film âEnfant Terribleâ races to keep up with the blazing life of the filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Oliver Masucci in âEnfant Terrible.âCredit.Dark Star Pictures
By Nicolas Rapold
Enfant Terrible
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Oskar Roehlerâs âEnfant Terribleâ runs through an impressively packed compendium of Rainer Werner Fassbinderâs life and works â the brilliance, the sadism, the compassion and the leopard-print suiting.
Roehler begins with Fassbinder upending Munichâs Action Theatre in his early 20s, and his fearless artistic talent suggests a force of nature unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. An account of milestones from the directorâs 40-plus features follows, from âLove Is Colder Than Deathâ to the Cannes breakthrough of â
Enfant Terrible: Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur
Enfant Terrible: Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur
Annihilation of the artist named Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the curiosity of how it all went wrong. Enfant Terrible has arrived.
Filmmaker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a central figure in shaping films after World War II and became one of the major auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema. His works varied from melodrama (
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), to sci-fi noir (
World on a Wire), to gothic thriller (
Chinese Roulette), and ending in gay fantasia mixed with murder (
Everything is film. Everything. Screen Daily has debuted the first official trailer for
Enfant Terrible, a brand new German biopic film about the iconic/infamous German New Wave filmmaker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (whose birthday was just a few days ago). Filmed in Cologne and Munich over the summer of 2019, the film was supposed to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, but after the pandemic changed the plans, the distributor reset the film for release in cinemas in Germany this October.
Oliver Masucci stars as Fassbinder, with a full ensemble cast featuring
Katja Riemann,
Eva Mattes as actress Brigitte Mira,
Antoine Monot Jr. as producer and actor Peter Berling,
Have you still not understood what that means, you amateurs? Damn. Dark Star Pictures has unveiled a new official US trailer for the strange German drama
Enfant Terrible, a film about the infamous German filmmaker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This was originally set to premiere at last year s Cannes (watch last year s trailer), then played at a few other fall festivals anyway, and is now opening in the US this spring. The film examines the life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder had a strong connection with Cannes after his drama
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, starring Mira and Salem, premiered in Competition in 1974 to critical acclaim, catapulting him onto the world stage.
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