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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

12A

part of All That Melodrama Allows

Film

Sun 30 Nov - Tue 2 Dec

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Details: 93 mins, Subtitled, 1974, West Germany
Primary language: German, Arabic

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General sale opens on Mon 20 October at 12:00

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In March 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder released what would become arguably his most loved work. Fresh from the Cannes Film Festival, where it had earned its director two prizes, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul would soon delight audiences the world over with its tale of romance and racial prejudice in present-day Munich.

Emmi (Brigitte Mira), a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties, meets Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties. Seeking companionship, the pair marry to the outrage Emmi's family (including Fassbinder himself as her aggressive son-in-law), her friends and her colleagues.

Paying homage to the classic melodramas of Douglas Sirk, in particular All That Heaven Allows, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a beautifully performed look at intolerance and hypocrisy, and a key film for both Fassbinder and the New German Cinema.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul on Tue 2 Dec is part of our Cinébites deal: get 30% off any main dish in the Café & Bar with a valid ticket for Club Shed members.

Priority booking now open for Club Shed members

General sale opens on Mon 20 October at 12:00

Choose screening date & time for: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Sun 30 Nov

14:20 (ends 15:53)

Tue 2 Dec

18:00 (ends 19:33) Bite

Pricing

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Screenings before 16:00 Monday to Friday and before 14:00 at weekends
£9.00 full (plus 12% booking fee*) / £6.00 concessions (plus 12% booking fee*).

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£11.50 full (plus 12% booking fee*) / £9.00 concessions (plus 12% booking fee*).

Aged 24 or under and refugees and asylum seekers
Any screening, any day any time for £6.00 (plus 12% booking fee*).

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Priority booking now open for Club Shed members

Sun 30 Nov

Tue 2 Dec

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