âEnfant Terribleâ Review: I Can Sleep When Iâm Dead
The packed biographical film âEnfant Terribleâ races to keep up with the blazing life of the filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Oliver Masucci in âEnfant Terrible.âCredit.Dark Star Pictures
By Nicolas Rapold
Enfant Terrible
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Oskar Roehlerâs âEnfant Terribleâ runs through an impressively packed compendium of Rainer Werner Fassbinderâs life and works â the brilliance, the sadism, the compassion and the leopard-print suiting.
Roehler begins with Fassbinder upending Munichâs Action Theatre in his early 20s, and his fearless artistic talent suggests a force of nature unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. An account of milestones from the directorâs 40-plus features follows, from âLove Is Colder Than Deathâ to the Cannes breakthrough of â�