A while ago, watching different films I came to Fassbinder. He was a German film director, screenwriter, actor and film producer, part of the New German cinema movement, a period on German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s.
He was the son of a military doctor and a translator, who divorced when Fassbinder was only six years old, being taken care of by the mother. In his films, the paternal figure is almost non-existent.
After making his first film, Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969), Fassbinder does not stop working, performing in only 15 years makes almost forty films. His films are on the one hand a portrait of Germany before, during and after Nazism as well as an image of a hypocritical society.
Personally what I admire most of this director is that he was able to make a cinema with a clear political awareness of his context without leaving aside his aesthetic vocation: his films are melodramas almost always starring by strong womans, representing the figure of the antihero, where the way of telling the story takes on a meaning as important as what is being told.
Fassbinder dies at 37 years old after a cocaine overdose, in 1978.
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