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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Not Rated
1974
1h 33m
Drama
,
Romance
8.0
100%
91%
7.7
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A woman in her 60s falls in love with a man in his 30s.
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Cast of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Brigitte Mira
Emmi Kurowski
El Hedi ben Salem
Ali
Irm Hermann
Krista
Barbara Valentin
Barbara
Elma Karlowa
Mrs. Kargus
Anita Bucher
Mrs. Ellis
Gusti Kreissl
Paula
Doris Mattes
Mrs. Angermayer
Margit Symo
Hedwig
Katharina Herberg
Bardame
Lilo Pempeit
Mrs. Munchmeyer
Walter Sedlmayr
Mr. Angermayer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Eugen / Director / Screenplay / Producer / Production Design / Original Music Composer
Karl Scheydt
Albert
Peter Gauhe
Bruno
Marquard Bohm
Gruber
Hark Bohm
Doctor
Kurt Raab
Car Mechanic
Jürgen Jürges
Director Of Photography
Thea Eymèsz
Editor
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Ratings & Reviews
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
In All That Heaven Allows, it's 'only' class that divides them. That's part of its elegance - and potency. Fassbinder amplifies all of the oppressive forces that conspire against this couple without compromising either.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...a movie that seems to have given up on the very idea of genuine human connection, even as it aches for exactly that.
Gay Community News (Boston)
Jan Shorter
Fear Eats the Soul is full of Fassbinder's intriguing theatrical camera work. His sensitivity to the theater, where his experience lies, brings the film an unexpected immediacy.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Fassbinder's historicism is a crucial aspect of his modernism: he didn't just make use of prior forms, he quoted them, and derived from them the ironies implicit in his melodramatic styles.
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
The movie operates in passages of such raw and resonating veracity that they seem almost too stark to be in a movie.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" is a timeless examination of the insidious effects of prejudice and racism on relationships.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
This 1974 film stands as one of Fassbinder's sturdiest achievements, posed between the low-budget funkiness of his early features and the mannerism of his late period.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A magnificently laconic distillate of taboo and conformism
Variety
Variety Staff
Technically flawless, deceptively simple and avoiding excesses, it is about problems that are timely and timeless in implications.
TV Guide
A mordant satire that's also a touching romance and a powerful indictment of prejudice.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Fassbinder made this one on the cheap between bigger projects and scored with a beautifully observed, and even oddly gentle tale.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
It is, rather, another quite courageous attempt by Mr. Fassbinder to develop a film style free of the kind of realistic conventions that sentimentalize life's mysteries.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
A simple and powerful film of great and quiet beauty.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A chilling tale about bias.
ToxicUniverse.com
Keith Uhlich
Many of Fassbinder's best films possess a kind of cosmic balance. No one character or belief rises above another without the other shoe dropping.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Ali's terse speaking matter is ripe with aphorisms, but it's also another way for Fassbinder to evoke the suspended animation of his character's lives.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Mark Robison
A movie that's simple and honest. It plays universally and feels particularly relevent in 21st century America.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Matt Bailey
If this were the only film Fassbinder ever made, it would still be one of the great works of cinema. It's only the brilliance and scope of his work both before and after this film that keep me from declaring it his unqualified masterpiece.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul might sound like improbable, contrived soap opera. It doesn't play that way.
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