Baltic Cinema: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s heart-on-sleeve melodrama of a doomed romance across racial and age divides probes social hypocrisy with feeling.Baltic Cinema: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)
Thu 25 June | 18:30
£6/£4.50 per personRainer Werner Fassbinder FDR / W Germany 1974 92’ (12A)
35mm transferred to digital video | In German with English subtitlesRainer Werner Fassbinder’s heart-on-sleeve melodrama of a doomed romance across racial and age divides probes social hypocrisy with feeling.One evening in Munich, an elderly cleaning lady (Brigitte Mira) escapes from the rain into a bar frequented by immigrants. To her surprise, the jukebox plays an old German tango and a handsome young Moroccan man (El Hedi ben Salem) asks her to dance... So far, so like a fairy tale, but this tenderest of romances is soon exposed to the brutal reality of racism and ageism.This unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power. Not a shot is wasted in this bold reworking of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, which unfolds with gripping simplicity. (BFI)‘A triumph of intersectionality – as no one used to say in 1974 – and a triumph of love.’
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Doors open 18:00; Film starts 18:30. Pop-up cinema bar open from 18:00 for drinks.
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