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<font size="4"><br><i>Ali: Fear Eats the Soul</i></font>
<br>by David Ng</font>
<p>The weird, brutal, and chilling world of Rainer Werner Fassbinder took an irrevocable step into the international spotlight with the release of his 1974 masterpiece <i>Ali: Fear Eats the Soul</i>. The story of forbidden love between a Moroccan immigrant and a German cleaning woman nearly twice his age, Ali effortlessly marries Fassbinder's signature neo-Brechtian detachment with the operatic melodrama of a Douglas Sirk weepie.
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