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Written when he was 19 yet unperformed in his lifetime, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first full-length play is here artfully translated to the screen by iconoclastic director François Ozon. Exploring themes that would recur in Fox and His Friends and In a Year of 13 Moons, the highly charged action chronicles bisexual Bernard Girardeau's relationships with a callow youth, the youth's naive girlfriend and his own transsexual ex-wife. The film is made notable by Ozon's fidelity to Fassbinder's cinematic style, particularly in his use of glass and reflective surfaces, and in his treatment of the characters as marionettes at the mercy of the story's twists and turns.

Cynics would argue that this is so much more achieved than Ozon's first two features because there was a real script:... read more on Time Out