Christian Braad Thomsen: Fassbinder /2
Danish documentary master Christian Braad Thomsen’s Fassbinder portrait opens in theatres in New York today. Richard Brody praises the film in a great article in The New Yorker (April 28 2016), in which he compares it with another portrait film about Hannah Arendt and thus describes the “differences between an artistic experience and a prefabricated time-stuffer” !
“Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands is the rarest of portrait-films: in addition to being a crucial addition to the critical and biographical record, it’s a cinematic experience in itself, a work of art that can stand on its own as a movie. If Fassbinder were no real person but a fictional character created by Thomsen, the film would endure as a deeply imagined, fierce, and graceful drama…”
Read the rest:
Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands (Denmark 2015) is being screened at The Metrograph in New York May 1-5:
http://metrograph.com/film/film/113/fassbinder-to-love-without-demands
Photograph courtesy Christian Braad Thomsen
