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The Marriage of Maria Braun

1978 · Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Germany

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The Marriage of Maria Braun

Germany · 1978

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Far from Heaven 2002 · Todd Haynes BOMB Magazine interview Rent on Prime Video

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Fassbinder inherited Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic impulse and pushed it into a much more political, Brechtian, and self-conscious direction, as in The Marriage of Maria Braun or Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. His films had a huge impact on me.

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