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10/23/02
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A deceivingly simple film about the uncomfortable romantic relationship between a 60-year-old German cleaning woman named Emmi and a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant named Ali, ALI: FEAR EATS THE... [More]
Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Reviews for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul might sound like improbable, contrived soap opera. It doesn't play that way.
01/22/02
Top CriticFassbinder made this one on the cheap between bigger projects and scored with a beautifully observed, and even oddly gentle tale.
05/26/06
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06/26/05
One of Fassbinder's crown jewels, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is as powerful as any film he ever made, despite its pedestrian premise.
11/28/02
It is, rather, another quite courageous attempt by Mr. Fassbinder to develop a film style free of the kind of realistic conventions that sentimentalize life's mysteries.
05/09/05
If this were the only film Fassbinder ever made, it would still be one of the great works of cinema. It's only the brilliance and scope of his work both before and after this film that keep me from declaring it his unqualified masterpiece.
07/05/03
A chilling tale about bias.
11/17/03
A simple and powerful film of great and quiet beauty.
01/21/04
A movie that's simple and honest. It plays universally and feels particularly relevent in 21st century America.
07/22/03
One of Fassbinder's loosest and most powerful films.
03/18/03
Ali’s terse speaking matter is ripe with aphorisms, but it’s also another way for Fassbinder to evoke the suspended animation of his character’s lives.
08/31/03
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01/26/06
Many of Fassbinder's best films possess a kind of cosmic balance. No one character or belief rises above another without the other shoe dropping.
09/27/03
A mordant satire that's also a touching romance and a powerful indictment of prejudice.
09/18/06
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