“Part two (between The Marriage of Maria Braun and Veronika Voss) of Fassbinder’s trilogy on Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ of the 1950s. This film is a very loose remake of The Blue Angel, with an upright building commissioner (Armin Mueller-Stahl) falling in love with a corrupt cabaret singer (Barbara Sukowa); but where the driving force in Sternberg’s film is sex, in Fassbinder’s it’s money. Despite the cold, abstract visuals—Sirk’s colors and Sternberg’s clutter—the film is one of Fassbinder’s warmest, with a close, affectionate direction of actors unlike anything he’d ever attempted.”
—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
• Written by Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Fassbinder. Photographed by Xavier Schwarzenberger. With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs. (113 mins, In German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
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—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
• Written by Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Fassbinder. Photographed by Xavier Schwarzenberger. With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs. (113 mins, In German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
“Part two (between The Marriage of Maria Braun and Veronika Voss) of Fassbinder’s trilogy on Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ of the 1950s. This film is a very loose remake of The Blue Angel, with an upright building commissioner (Armin Mueller-Stahl) falling in love with a corrupt cabaret singer (Barbara Sukowa); but where the driving force in Sternberg’s film is sex, in Fassbinder’s it’s money. Despite the cold, abstract visuals—Sirk’s colors and Sternberg’s clutter—the film is one of Fassbinder’s warmest, with a close, affectionate direction of actors unlike anything he’d ever attempted.”
—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
• Written by Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Fassbinder. Photographed by Xavier Schwarzenberger. With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs. (113 mins, In German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
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—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
• Written by Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Fassbinder. Photographed by Xavier Schwarzenberger. With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs. (113 mins, In German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
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