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 (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Fear of Fear
Movie Review: Average
Summary: 2 Stars
I haven't seen any of Fassbinder's other films yet, but this one sucked. There's really nothing remarkable about it at all. The caption on the back describes this film as a "descent into madness". A woman gets hooked on cognac and valium, has an affair with a doctor, gets depressed and has to deal with her witchy in-laws. She gets really neurotic and is afraid to be alone sometimes. Big deal. The only outstanding aspect of the film is the leading lady's performance, which is occasionally really creepy.
And there isn't anything subtle or disturbing about it. It's just what I've described. I could tell this was made for TV. More like an ABC school special than a foreign dementia film. Watch Polanski's "The Tenant" or "Clean Shaven" if you want something really crazy.
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 HortonArt House & International DVD Video
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