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What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 14-16
Including reviews of The Underground Railroad, The Killing Of Two Lovers, In The Earth and more By Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
May 14, 2021
OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of May 14. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
The Killing Of Two Lovers
(Robert Machoian)
Machoian’s solo debut as a writer/director after more than a decade of collaborations and documentaries is a spare, aching and almost unbearably sad drama about thirtysomething David (Clayne Crawford), a husband and father in rural Utah mired in a domestic crisis. He’s separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) and their children. Nikki appears to be moving on. David has a gun. He badly wants to use it. But The Killing Of Two Lovers isn’t that simple. Machoian immediately complicates his story by showing us who David is when he’s not blinded by rage, and then complicates things fur
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: Where and When to Watch
ENFANT TERRIBLE, the biopic of iconic German New Wave director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, commences in select theaters this May – June from Dark Star Pictures.
From director Oskar Roehler, and starring Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, and Felix Hellmann, ENFANT TERRIBLE had its world premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
This is the story of a child of his time…of an extremely talented and dynamic filmmaker named Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and about the longing for respect and love of the outsiders – foreigners, underprivileged groups, small convicts. His fulminant rise to being one of the most important directors in Europe correlates with his mental and physical fall and his early death.