Enfant Terrible

Did not believe Oliver Masucci would be able to play a believable Rainer Werner Fassbinder after playing the lead in "Look Who's Back". The Music rocks, the dialogue is fun & Brigitte Mira and Andy Warhol are also played well. Wished the producers had used real footage in between and not only the original sound of newscasters. Maybe it was a rights clearance issue. However, thanks for this trip.

Let me state that I am a fan of RWF. While I understand the sets, lighting, etc., that are employed in an effort to pay homage to the director, Masucci (despite his impeccable rendering of Fassbinder) is a 50-ish year-old man playing a man who died at 37. I noticed it right away, and it tainted the production, in my opinion. It is certainly worth viewing, but I’d really like to see a more true-to-life film about the life of RWF, without the filmmakers attempting to make it so stylized. It would also be nice to have some cameos of Fassbinder’s “favorites” (not as themselves), as several of them are still living.

At times hard to watch but never dull. They got feel and the looked of Fassbinder down to a t