Laura Cottingham

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974), Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much younger Moroccan migrant worker. Set in Munich during the 1970s, the film melds the conventions of melodrama with a radical sensibility to present a portrait of...