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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Plot summary : A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

A heart wrenching love story of impossible yearning. Fassbinder shows us where beauty lies in an ugly and brutal world.

This film is so far ahead of its time it continues to challenge and impress today. One for the ages. Still relevant in every way to everything happening in the world and beautifully executed. Perhaps the most powerful film ever made shows the destructive role of social convention and fear in a contemporary context that is stratified by gender, race and age.

A true trailblazer filmmaker. Relentless, obsessive, subversive and the most prolific filmmaker in history! #bestfilmever

Easily in the top 5 love stories of all time in the history of cinema!

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