Love Is Colder Than Death

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Love Is Colder Than Death

1969

1h 28m

Crime

Drama

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An independent hoodlum (Ulli Lommel) is ordered to kill his friend (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by a crime syndicate.

Noel Murray

The Dissolve

Love Is Colder Than Death is heavily abstracted, with the characters more like models in a fashion layout than people in a story.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 4, 2013

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

The makings of a powerful filmmaker are clearly in evidence.

Oct 28, 2003

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

These disquieting moments evoke a strange and complex sexual relationship between the film's characters bound to end in ravishing betrayals.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 5, 2003

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Jordan Brooks

Vague Visages

Basking in drawn-out pauses and uninterrupted tracking shots, Fassbinder strives to make his audience feel a profound discomfort and delights in presenting an errant challenge to his viewers’ integrity.

Aug 3, 2023

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

An unabashed and unrestrained ode to cinema penned by a young man who would become one of its greatest artists.

Aug 28, 2018

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Christopher Long

Movie Metropolis

Flouting conventional wisdom, Fassbinder stages scene after scene against a blank white wall as characters shuffle back and forth and almost disappear into the blinding haze.

Rated: 9/10

Sep 9, 2013

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Audience Member

Lesser Rainer Werner Fassbinder, very slow-moving.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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s r

Not my cup ?? of tea.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Yes. I'm a fan. My first Fassbinder, (his first too), and I love his style. Any film that uses minimal editing and a watchful camera gets my adoration. The film is rendered beautiful by a curiosity of musical pieces.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

Stark arthaus cinema with a glimpse of would be criminals. They exist mostly in boring moments while the audience is left outside their passions - forever waiting to be drawn in.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

good crime dram-rom-com

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

An interesting debut but ultimately a tad bland.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director

Ulli Lommel

Bruno

Hanna Schygulla

Johanna

Katrin Schaake

Dame im Zug

Liz Soellner

Zeitungsverkäuferin

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Franz

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Synopsis

An independent hoodlum (Ulli Lommel) is ordered to kill his friend (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by a crime syndicate.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer: Peer Raben, Thomas Schamoni
Screenwriter: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Production Co: Antiteater-X-Film
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 28m