Angst essen Seele auf 1974

Vincent Canby, New York Times: 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. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: This 1974 film stands as one of Fassbinder's sturdiest achievements, posed between the low-budget funkiness of his early features and the mannerism of his late period. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Fassbinder's historicism is a crucial aspect of his modernism: he didn't just make use of prior forms, he quoted them, and derived from them the ironies implicit in his melodramatic styles. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul might sound like improbable, contrived soap opera. It doesn't play that way. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Fassbinder uses dramatic and visual excess to push everyday events to extremes, achieving a degree of political and psychological truth not accessible through mere social realism. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Technically flawless, deceptively simple and avoiding excesses, it is about problems that are timely and timeless in implications. Read more