An Obsession to Die For, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film|Rainer Werner Fassbinder Retrospective at CineFan
The Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to be partner with the Hong Kong International Film Festival to present "An Obsession to Die For" - a retropective of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, at the CineFan May/Jun/Jul programme.
Never an adorable son in his mother country, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-82) is, beyond dispute, one of the most important directors of Germany’s post-WWII era. A self-taught genius who never attended a film school, Fassbinder started his career as an actor, playwright and a director of avant-garde films. Along with his artistic versatility is his monstrous propensity of doing things his own way and manipulating anyone who entered his orbit. Always way ahead of his time, he remained a radical outsider in a bourgeois society.
Fassbinder’s life was even more colourful than his films. His relationships with both men and women – many of them his collaborators – are well documented, partly because they often served as his inspiration. In a Year with 13 Moons was a response to the tragic death of his former lover Armin Meier, and he dedicated The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant to Irm Hermann, whose character of the long-suffering assistant clearly mirrored her own abusive relationship with the infamous director. Leaving an astonishing amount of work – 44 feature films, two TV series, different shorts and videos, and 24 plays – by the time of his death at age 37, Fassbinder was a tireless creator who often laid bare his soul for all to see, desperate to be understood.
Programme:
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Never an adorable son in his mother country, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-82) is, beyond dispute, one of the most important directors of Germany’s post-WWII era. A self-taught genius who never attended a film school, Fassbinder started his career as an actor, playwright and a director of avant-garde films. Along with his artistic versatility is his monstrous propensity of doing things his own way and manipulating anyone who entered his orbit. Always way ahead of his time, he remained a radical outsider in a bourgeois society.
Fassbinder’s life was even more colourful than his films. His relationships with both men and women – many of them his collaborators – are well documented, partly because they often served as his inspiration. In a Year with 13 Moons was a response to the tragic death of his former lover Armin Meier, and he dedicated The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant to Irm Hermann, whose character of the long-suffering assistant clearly mirrored her own abusive relationship with the infamous director. Leaving an astonishing amount of work – 44 feature films, two TV series, different shorts and videos, and 24 plays – by the time of his death at age 37, Fassbinder was a tireless creator who often laid bare his soul for all to see, desperate to be understood.
Programme:
- The Merchant of Four Seasons
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Martha
- Fox and His Friends
- Chinese Roulette
- In a Year with 13 Moons
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Lili Marleen
- Lola
- Veronika Voss
- Querelle
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