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The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Fear Eats the Soul? (1974) at East Dulwich Tavern on 21 July 2016


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The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Fear Eats the Soul? (1974) at 8pm on Thursday, 21 July 2016, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.


A lonely working class widow Emy (Birgitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab immigrant working as a mechanic Ali (El Hedi Ben Salem), whom she falls in love with. The poignancy of the love affair is contrasted with the bitterness of family, colleagues and society?s reaction to a love that breaks racial boundaries.


Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a hugely influential and prolific director/writer/actor who kick-started a renaissance in filmmaking in West Germany with his distinctive, controversial and ground-breaking work which sought to document and expose the hypocrisies and complacency of the post-war West German society. This film, modelled loosely on Douglas Sirk?s 1955 melodrama All That Heaven Allows (about a middle class widow who falls in love with a much younger gardener), explores the deep-rooted prejudices about race, sex, politics and class in 1970s Germany, which are no less relevant today.


Fassbinder is at his best in this film achieving a balance between emotional involvement and critical distance and exemplifies a tenderness not usually seen in his films.


Director/writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Birgitte Mira and El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin


Germany 94 minutes. Cert 15. All tickets ?7.


Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.


Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/351054

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn


Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW


Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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