The Merchant Of Four Seasons

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The decline of a working-class fruit salesman, who gradually becomes superfluous to his own life, is powerfully captured in this sharp, devastating work. A rumination on the terrible effects a loveless life can accomplish, this sees the auteur at his most ironic, and the frozen crocodile tears on his nagging wife's cheeks at the end of the film is a classic Fassbinder moment.

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'Women On Fassbinder' featurette; 'Life, Love & Celluloid' featurette; Film notes.

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Article - "Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Brief Introduction" by Alex Davidson
Friday 31st August 2007

Fassbinder is one of the most ruthless observers of human nature the cinema has ever known. The best-known of the directors who flourished during the New German Cinema movement, his extraordinary output – 41 films in a 13-year period – almost certainly helped contrib...  View article in full

Article - "Humanity is What Matters: An Appreciation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder" by Christoph Michel
Friday 5th October 2007

Throughout the 1970s, Fassbinder seemed to be everywhere. Naturally, you'll say, with him filming at breakneck pace a new film would be along every few months, but that was not all, not by a long shot. He constantly wrote or directed stage plays both in big houses an...  View article in full

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