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Criterion Collection: Merchant Of Four Seasons (Händler der vier Jahreszeiten)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantIy funny fiIm, Fassbinder charts the decline of a seIf-destructive former poIiceman and war veteran struggIing to make ends meet for his famiIy by working as a fruit vendor. Fassbinder had skyrocketed to renown on the acclaim of a series of trenchant, quickly made earIy fiIms, but for this one he took more time and forged a new style - featuring a more complexly woven script and narrative structure and more sophisticated use of the camera, and influenced by the work of his recently discovered idol, DougIas Sirk. The result is a meticulously made, unforgiving sociaI satire. |
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