Fear of Fear
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Actor: Armin Meier, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Margit Carstensen, Ulrich FaulhaberDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
Published: 2003-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Fear of Fear
Movie Review: A Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Fassbinder's most finely crafted films. The illness of the protagonist (Margit Carstenson) leads to just as many questions about the people around her as it does to herself. Thus, this is a statement about society at large and not just a personal portrait. Fassbinder, I have read, was greatly fascinated with Freudian psychology - and some of this passion we can see in the structure of his films.
This is a middle-period Fassbinder film - but one which, while embracing a similar theme to 'Martha', I think is very forward looking.
I admire this film - and agree with Vincent Canby (New York Times) when he calls Fassbinder a major artist.
Summary of Fear of Fear
If not among the better-known films by the gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Fear of Fear" is nevertheless an absolutely characteristic work. A housewife, locked into a dull life with her distracted husband and two small children (plus nattering mother-in-law and sister-in-law living in the apartment upstairs) finds herself seized by uncontrollable anxiety. Although the wife has an affair with a doctor, there is little conventional melodrama; instead, Fassbinder strips away plot mechanics in favor of a complete identification with the woman's mysterious angst. The central role is tailor-made for one of RWF's favorite leading ladies, Margit Carstensen, whose regal cheekbones and elegant air belie the instability beneath the skin. Fassbinder's eye is exacting--the apartment is a dead-on purgatory of bourgeois nothingness--and his framing shows the influence of his Hollywood idol, Douglas Sirk. This is a small work in the bulging Fassbinder canon, but it's impeccably realized. "--Robert Horton"Similar DVD Movies
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