Merchant of Four Seasons

Pros: actors allowed to act (unlike in "Effi Briest" or "Heart of Glass")
Cons: stacked deck

Written and direct by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1972 "Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten" (The Merchant of Four Seasons) was, I think, intended as a critique of materialism and capitalism. Although "primitive capital accumulation" is central to the ...

Pros: A raw twist on a much-maligned genre
Cons: cynical, predictable

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films seem to be a cross between the high culture and its less sophisticated relative. I mean, most people are going to think of his work as outside of the mainstream - after all, they’re serious German films. Yet at ...