Enfant Terrible

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.

This film vividly conjures up the shabby, cigarette-ashy world: the West Germany of radical chic and revolutionary paranoia.

Enfant Terrible is somewhat repetitive - ever more shouting, more hedonism, more tainted glory - but it's never boring.

Enfant Terrible is able to paint the picture of a terrified, complex, deeply flawed man who has a lot to give to the world of film, even if maybe he should have given to himself and his compatriots a bit more.

As RWF, Oliver Masucci (you might know him from Netflix's Dark) commits fully, leading with the gut and the bile duct as he tears the supporting cast asunder.

This lurid biopic of iconoclastic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder too often feels like an R-rated "SNL" skit.

If he achieves one thing with Enfant Terrible it is in letting Masucci loose to bring Fassbinder, with his poker face, paunch, and all his darkest and most creative aspects, to life.

There are treats for confirmed fanatics... So, is this filmmaker worth the effort? Of course.

ENFANT TERRIBLE is a fascinating and rule breaking biopic that is engrossing, provocative, and consuming work that is difficult to look away from.

Keeping the tension at a fever pitch, Roehler mounted it with some decadently fascinating moments.