LOLA and VERONIKA VOSS Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Screenplays by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's death in June, at 36, had all the garish contradictions of the film maker's melodramas. The police diagnosisoverdose of sleeping pills and cocainepointed up the standard celebrity moral of too much work, too many indulgences, too little time. For those moviegoers who had seen the Bavarian-born director at film festivals or spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his...
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