Fassbinder was a really productive director, and there has already been several books about him. This is probably the first film. The format is bad suited, I don't feel that I get a portrait of Fassbinder and neither his work as a director. He just jumps from one bad relationship to the next, uses drugs and acts like a douchbag to everyone else.
Everything in the film takes place inside what obviously is a studio and the backgrounds are painted, if Fassbinder ever worked in a German expressionist way this could have explained it as an artistic choice but it just feels cheap.
The film takes place between 1976 to 1982, they have casted an actor born 1968. He is perfect as the older Fassbinder but when he is supposed to be 22 and he is 30 years older in real life, it was just cringe.
It felt more like they didn't have the money to have a younger cast.
If I didn't know anything about Fassbinder or his films I think I wouldn't been able to follow the story.
