Fassbinder's "Fear of Fear"

Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s melodramatic Fear of Fear. This film is part of the PFA’s months-long Fassbinder and the New German Cinema retrospective. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.

"Rainer Werner Fassbinder trades on the tricks of his Hollywood mentors, especially Douglas Sirk, in creating an always sunlit environment for his heroine, the ‘perfect’ middle-class wife and mother, to go mad in. Soon after the birth of her child, Margot (Margit Carstensen) experiences a depression that is exacerbated by her fear that she is becoming schizophrenic. Disproving Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous axiom, Fear of Fear is more than an examination of free-floating anxiety; rather, as Vincent Canby noted, “it is about the autumn of materialism in the form of an intensely personal case history . . . everything is perfect for Margot, yet nothing works.”—Pacific Film Archive

Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/event/fear-fear

Fassbinder and the New German Cinema (March 6 – May 17): https://bampfa.org/program/Fassbinder-New-German-Cinema

6:30 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film starts at 7:00.
8:30 After the film we will meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.