Faustrecht der Freiheit 1975

Richard Eder, New York Times: It excludes all life that is not within the very narrow intentions of its author. Its pores have been painted over. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This 1975 melodrama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of his better middle-period films. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise-nowhere more than in Fassbinder's attention to the price of domestic comforts and industrial necessities. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here is a movie about characters who define themselves by their sexuality, but the movie doesn't. It takes the sexuality as a given, and defines them by their values and morals. Read more

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