World on a Wire: As if over 3 hours of futuristic 70's German TV is not remarkable enough, throw Fassbinder in the mix and you are granted a sort of unorthodox version of bliss. For all his New Wave affiliations (cf. Alphaville) this legendary enfant terrible is really in a class of his own. World on a Wire is packed with his signature tropes and themes, from the slightly hallucinogenic outre aesthetic and carnivalesque characters to the withering critique of capitalism, power and convention. Bizarre, complex, delightful - and important, in film-historical terms.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
SFIFF54: 'World on a Wire'
World on a Wire: As if over 3 hours of futuristic 70's German TV is not remarkable enough, throw Fassbinder in the mix and you are granted a sort of unorthodox version of bliss. For all his New Wave affiliations (cf. Alphaville) this legendary enfant terrible is really in a class of his own. World on a Wire is packed with his signature tropes and themes, from the slightly hallucinogenic outre aesthetic and carnivalesque characters to the withering critique of capitalism, power and convention. Bizarre, complex, delightful - and important, in film-historical terms.
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