The legend of Germany's most prolific director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, provides the inspiration for this stirring portrait of an obsessive filmmaker shooting a romantic melodrama. A strange bit of casting has a woman, Mattes (a well-known German actress and star of Fassbinder's JAIL BAIT
[1977] as well as Werner Herzog's STROSZEK [1977]), portraying the maniacal, overweight director. Hiding behind a false beard and a black leather motorcycle jacket, Mattes adds a dimension of stilted femininity to RWF's character that a male actor would have found nearly impossible. The film in
progress is a version of Alexandre Dumas'
Lady of the Camelias, with Kreuzer a...
Released:
1985
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins