Sliding scale admission: $5–25. Please pay what you can; proceeds support Northwest Film Forum during our closure. About this series:The monthly film series <a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/gps/ver.cfm?event_id=21789270&amp;fuseaction=events.detail&amp;" target="_blank" class="ql-size-huge">GERMAN CINEMA NOW!</a> is curated by <a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/gps.html" target="_blank" class="ql-size-huge">Goethe Pop Up Seattle</a>. This year, the series explores themes of disruption and continuity to inspire public dialogue about the ways in which the past shapes our moment and can inform a radically different future. ** This screening is followed by a 30-minute recorded Q&amp;A on the film with Richard Block, Professor of&nbsp;German Studies at the University of Washington, and Goethe Pop Up’s Martin Schwartz **

<a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/gps.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Goethe Pop Up</a> is thrilled to partner with <a href="https://threedollarbillcinema.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Three Dollar Bill Cinema</a> for a very special Pride edition of German Cinema Now!, featuring the Seattle premiere of Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible, an official selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982): cruel, sensitive, childish, domineering, imaginative, egocentric. And, yes, an artist of genius with a fiendish work drive. What the New German Cinema luminary and queer icon Fassbinder is not, in Oskar Roehler’s (Jew Suss: Rise and Fall) appropriately unorthodox biopic, is redeemed by a phony narrative about the power of art. This is not a hagiography. This Fassbinder is crude to his friends, abusive to his collaborators, dismissive of the press, and simply awful to his lovers. He moves very, very fast. Masterfully, indelibly characterized by Oliver Masucci (Look Who’s Back, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit), he is all rough edges, pinched nasality, leather, droopy mustache, and dark glasses. The film does not valorize Fassbinder’s views or behavior vis-à-vis race, gender, or violence. Splashing in rage in a bathtub, this is an enfant terrible who is, almost literally, a terrible child. The great artist as sadist. Likability is off the table. Whether this Fassbinder can be loved is another story. Enfant Terrible’s formal gambit is to make a Fassbinder movie as a Fassbinder movie, only one with RWF himself in the frame. The film capitalizes on speed of event, dramatic intensity, outrageous characterizations, gnomic dialogue, and artistic risk. Its characters are larger than life, yet its atmosphere is that of a claustrophobic, overheated world. The “rules” of conventional filmmaking do not apply. Enfant Terrible opens in a theatre, as the young nobody, looking tough and leaning on a wall while he lights a smoke, abruptly takes charge of a theatre production. In a way, the movie remains in the theatre. Whether Fassbinder is filming, in hotels or restaurants, gay bars, or his apartment, the film is set on sets, backed by cardboard or canvas walls, decorated by handwritten signs, and illuminated by wild, expressive lights. With terrific forward motion, Enfant Terrible shows Masucci/Fassbinder as he collects and then, one by one, betrays a devoted core of collaborators (including Katja Riemann, Rosenstraße), and gains ever greater fame and ever greater control of his craft. (The imagined onset glimpses of Fassbinder’s best-known films are a cinephile’s delight.) He drinks oceans of Cuba Libre. He finds drugs. He complains. And most of all, he works. Enfant Terrible opens with an epigraph from Wilde: “…each man kills the thing he loves.” The manner of the killing and the things this Fassbinder loves are the subjects of Roehler’s strange and abiding film. (Martin Schwartz)

Enfant Terrible

Oskar Roehler’s biopic of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), the cruel, childish, egocentric queer icon and artistic genius of New German Cinema.

Q&amp;A with Richard Block, Professor of&nbsp;German Studies at the University of Washington, and Goethe Pop Up’s Martin Schwartz.

Q&A: Enfant Terrible

Q&A with Richard Block, Professor of German Studies at the University of Washington, and Goethe Pop Up’s Martin Schwartz.

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The monthly film series GERMAN CINEMA NOW! is curated by Goethe Pop Up Seattle. In 2021, the series explores themes of disruption and continuity to inspire public dialogue about the ways in which the past shapes our present moment and can inform a radically different future. — The film screenings are presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum. Tickets to all screenings are pay-what-you-can; we encourage viewers to give within their means! All ticket proceeds will benefit Northwest Film Forum and other local organizations.

This pay-what-you-can monthly series of contemporary German films is curated by Goethe Pop Up Seattle and presented by Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. In 2021, the series will be dedicated to exploring themes of disruption and continuity.