Enfant Terrible: Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur
Enfant Terrible: Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur
Annihilation of the artist named Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the curiosity of how it all went wrong. Enfant Terrible has arrived.
Filmmaker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a central figure in shaping films after World War II and became one of the major auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema. His works varied from melodrama (
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), to sci-fi noir (
World on a Wire), to gothic thriller (
Chinese Roulette), and ending in gay fantasia mixed with murder (