Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

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Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life falls in love with Ali, an more than ten years younger Arab guest worker.

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Genres: Romance, Drama

AKA: Angst essen Seele auf

Country: West Germany

Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Doris Mattes, Lilo Pempeit, Gusti Kreissl, Margit Symo, Katharina Herberg

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Date	User	Rating
Feb 15	unexj	80 _29%
Feb 15	TinyCrossbow	8 _61%
Feb 13	platolimpica	70 _58%
Feb 09	PY3	70 _56%
Feb 08	sehrbei	95 _85%
Feb 07	seroş	97 _72%
Feb 03	LarsVonTrier	2 _29%
The foundations of Cannes Awards are laid here. Relationships between contrasts, minorities always work. here is an advice: a romance between a blind active lesbian palestinian rebel and a passive bisexual closeted israeli soldier will drown you in awards.
Jan 22	selingoknar	88 _95%
Jan 21	fauxgras	94 _78%
Jan 13	barisbirol	80 _38%
Jan 11	nimishtodi	78 _50%
Jan 10	komlu	85 _89%
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Jan 04	Roshambo	70 _79%
Jan 04	Grahamb	90 _86%
Jan 03	Cheezy Dub	70 _63%
Dec 29, 2020	Joey90	80 _59%
Dec 28, 2020	NotALemon	40 _18%
Dec 27, 2020	JonnyTwotabs	87 _69%
Dec 25, 2020	wimcalp	90 _95%
Dec 24, 2020	blueandred	3 _63%
Dec 19, 2020	Steamlord	80 _79%
Dec 16, 2020	patrickped	80 _73%
Dec 13, 2020	Beyz	100 _80%
Dec 03, 2020	fbatuhan10	75 _54%
Nov 22, 2020	hlyos	95 _28%
Oct 27, 2020	lalangue	79 _65%
Oct 25, 2020	kulturfizik	80 _75%
Oct 22, 2020	jamienelson	70 _54%
Oct 14, 2020	sebarivas	94 _77%
Oct 09, 2020	fun	89 _91%
Oct 06, 2020	emilija114	95 _96%
Sep 28, 2020	Opio	80 _90%
Sep 23, 2020	Facsimile	65 _42%
The film deals with complex themes in a bland and overly simplistic manner. All in all I did not find it enjoyable or enriching. I'm disappointed.
Sep 23, 2020	Timon88	89 _94%
A truly touching depiction of loneliness and alienation. Brigitte Mara is absolutely wonderful. Some may say it makes its points in a heavy-handed fashion, but I have spent enough time in southern Germany to know that Fassbinder did not exaggerate his situations in the least.
Sep 20, 2020	jphoff4	90 _64%
Sep 16, 2020	WmvWisdom	80 _58%
Sep 10, 2020	extreme87	93 _97%
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Sep 08, 2020	rospo	64 _54%
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Aug 12, 2020	ylajali	48 _31%
Aug 10, 2020	c4e5g3d5	90 _83%
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Aug 05, 2020	IMDb_rating	81 _90%
Aug 04, 2020	hertzfeldts	88 _98%
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Jul 23, 2020	Eggeplante	100 _98%
Jul 18, 2020	tj_allemaal	100 _65%
Jul 18, 2020	mcirish52	85 _49%
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Jun 13, 2020	D Lightman	70 _70%
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Jun 11, 2020	chengming	70 _62%
Yeah, that kind of punk filmmaking is interesting - but man, the story is told a bit overly simplistically, no?
Jun 06, 2020	TheShiznit	75 _97%
Jun 02, 2020	Grouchy	81 _57%
May 21, 2020	Omid Ranjbar	36 _24%
May 13, 2020	selcukburcak	67 _30%
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ırkçılık; sinemada sığ, derinlikten yoksun bir dil kadar kötüdür.
May 06, 2020	simsorut	90 _87%
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Feb 04, 2020	feublo	85 _73%
Sad, subtle and concrete with it’s strikingly beautiful colours. The slow, deranged moments strengthen it’s satirical entity, and wears it’s heart on it’s sleeve. Could not be more satisfied with my first Fassbinder.
Jan 28, 2020	Teproc	44 _19%
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Aug 03, 2019	NathanBates	60 _34%
A beautiful film with some amazing shots, but there were a few jumps in the plot that I just couldn't make sense of (were they fantasy or dream sequences? but that wouldn't make sense either). The racism commentary was quite powerful, especially since -- just changing a few nationalities around -- it's still an issue today. (As a completely unconnected aside, I think a movie about the bartender would have been captivating.)
Jul 24, 2019	Supecte	84 _94%
Jul 14, 2019	arozge	80 _77%
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Jun 14, 2019	karatoprak	79 _84%
being alone hurts. so does being together.
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Mar 21, 2019	PSJ	71 _48%
Mar 20, 2019	Brewster	80 _90%
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Mar 05, 2019	mate_cosido	70 _40%
Mar 03, 2019	le mami	87 _92%
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Feb 09, 2019	gamzeknc	82 _84%
Feb 06, 2019	finchereznor	90 _90%
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Dec 03, 2018	worrywirt	60 _31%
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Oct 20, 2018	dr_Robert	2 _11%
Oct 19, 2018	sourheart	92 _89%
Beautiful, very interesting elipses. E's comment that work ruins his health restructured the entire experience for a better understanding
Oct 16, 2018	skinnylegend	80 _95%
Oct 13, 2018	themoviepl	89 _51%
Oct 10, 2018	twijfel	67 _63%
Oct 09, 2018	nihilcthulhu	90 _88%
Sep 30, 2018	TheBreather	80 _72%
Sep 26, 2018	ShaunLewis54	92 _94%
Sep 24, 2018	fluland	91 _93%
Sep 24, 2018	serinkuytu	90 _88%
Sep 23, 2018	M-B-M	8 _95%
Sep 22, 2018	deanjames	80 _78%
Sep 20, 2018	agzel	70 _24%
Sep 20, 2018	derzulya	7 _75%
Sep 15, 2018	larmor	65 _59%
The first two thirds worked very well for me as an unfortunately still timely depiction of racism. The fact that overcoming it was due to material concerns is an interesting observation. But it overall lacks so much social/class analysis. The third part exemplifies it: out of the blue sky, Emmi refuses to go towards Ali who, in utter disregard of his previous characterization, starts wandering away. Except for allusions, virtually no social analysis is provided.
Sep 05, 2018	Modaal	88 _48%
Sep 05, 2018	HakkaMex	8 _85%
Sep 05, 2018	90sCoffee	80 _83%
Sep 01, 2018	redboots	90 _95%
Aug 30, 2018	aron92	90 _0%
Aug 26, 2018	parcaliham	95 _95%
26 August 18 & Fassbinder's spectacular space use, simple yet impressive camera movements and the minimal performance of the acting is impressive. I haven't seen such a fragile film in a long time.
Aug 20, 2018	bluestblues	9 _96%
Aug 07, 2018	JSchlansky	80 _78%
Finally a movie that depicts the dark reality of people purchasing drinks and then not drinking them.
Aug 07, 2018	filmbantha	70 _63%
Aug 06, 2018	arrow-s	83 _88%
Aug 02, 2018	brkshn	90 _93%
Jul 26, 2018	njm1211	93 _58%
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Jul 12, 2018	engi	75 _89%
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Jul 07, 2018	ayad.moosavi	60 _23%
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