Enfant Terrible.
Enfant Terrible makes hay of the late German auteur’s insane, cruel antics.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a new Coen Brothers film, but there’s some of the Coens’ sizzling comic energy in
Enfant Terrible, a German film about a terrible guy.
Meet Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who makes his fellow crazy German auteur Werner Herzog seem like Mitt Romney.
In addition to being terrible, Fassbinder, who died of advanced debauchery at a predictably early age, was a bit of an
enfant cruel and an
enfant ridicule. Played to the hilt by Oliver Masucci in director Oskar Roehler’s film, he is a snarling gay demon in a black motorcycle jacket, with a bare belly hanging over his waistband and a bushy handlebar mustache framing the cigarette in his mouth. Swilling Cuba Libres, shooting scenes with a hand down the front of his pants, barking madness at his cast and crew, Fassbinder comes across as a sort of arthouse Ed Wood, forever demanding that his