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Based on Douglas Sirk's classic melodrama, All That Heaven Allows, Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is the outrageous, touching story of the bumpy love affair between a sixtyish German floor-washer and an inarticulate Arab mechanic barely half her age. A moving romance, a perverse social comedy, a biting drama of racial prejudice, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is all these things, although in Fassbinder's freewheeling vision it is not always easy to tell where one leaves off and another begins. This Criterion Collection edition includes an introduction by director Todd Haynes, interviews, the original theatrical trailer, the short film "Fear Is the Soul" (2002), the 35-minute BBC documentary "Signs of a Vigorous Life: New German Cinema," and more.
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