Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s classic Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) will be shown on 13th February, as part of Bangkok University’s Fear Eat the Love programme of romantic films, on the eve of Valentine’s Day. The event will take place at the university’s School of Digital Media and Cinematic Arts.
Fassbinder was one of the leading figures of the 1970s German new wave (das neue Kino), and his death from a drug overdose effectively marked the end of the movement. Fear Eats the Soul was heavily influenced by Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood melodrama All That Heaven Allows, which also inspired the Todd Haynes film Far from Heaven.
Fassbinder was one of the leading figures of the 1970s German new wave (das neue Kino), and his death from a drug overdose effectively marked the end of the movement. Fear Eats the Soul was heavily influenced by Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood melodrama All That Heaven Allows, which also inspired the Todd Haynes film Far from Heaven.
Last year was Fear Eats the Soul’s fiftieth anniversary. The film has previously been screened at Doc Club and Pub in Bangkok, at Bo(ok)hemian Arthouse in Phuket, and at the Thai Film Archive in Salaya.