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  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h 14 m

Summary This is the story of a child of his time: The story of an extremely talented and dynamic artist called Rainer Werner Fassbinder who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and about the longing for respect and love of the outsiders – foreigners, underprivileged groups, small convicts. His fulminant ...

Directed By: Oskar Roehler

Written By: Klaus Richter, Oskar Roehler

  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h 14 m

Enfant Terrible

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Summary This is the story of a child of his time: The story of an extremely talented and dynamic artist called Rainer Werner Fassbinder who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and about the longing for respect and love of the outsiders – foreigners, underprivileged groups, small convicts. His fulminant ...

Directed By: Oskar Roehler

Written By: Klaus Richter, Oskar Roehler

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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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May 13, 2021
Masucci’s intensely charismatic Fassbinder, bathed in cigarette smoke, working “26 hour days” even before the cocaine and barbiturate addictions that took over later, looks like walking death the moment we meet him. That lets Enfant Terrible reinforce the suspicion that Fassbinder is more famous for his excesses than his films, 40 years after his death.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
May 13, 2021
It gives you a good idea of what a nightmare he must have been to work for, and the 24/7 tumult that drove his work. Fassbinder was the nearest an auteur came to punk rock.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
May 13, 2021
Enfant Terrible is somewhat repetitive – ever more shouting, more hedonism, more tainted glory – but it’s never boring. It’s just not very insightful – full marks for the style, but the substance is best found in the books, and in the various documentaries about the man.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
50
May 13, 2021
The film feels both hermetic and declarative, and it’s folly to constantly remind a viewer of Fassbinder’s impossible-to-replicate alchemy of color, lighting, angles and passion.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
42
May 13, 2021
Enfant Terrible feels like one missed opportunity after another.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bavaria Filmproduktion, X-Filme Creative Pool, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARTE, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Release Date May 7, 2021
Duration 2 h 14 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/EnfantTerrible.DerFilm/
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Bavarian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
FEST International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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