Tuesday, July 13 at 2 and 8.15

Fear Eats the Soul

West Germany 1974 Wellington Premiere International Critics' Prize, and Ecumenical Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 1974. New York Film Festival 1974.

A 60-year-old widow falls in love with a young Moroccan emigrant labourer, and together they suffer the slings and arrows of the outraged neighbours. A controversial new film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder hailed by Jan Dawson as "the Cannes Festival's best film" David Robinson in The Times wrote: "It is consistently intelligent and entertaining." The London Daily Telegraph said: "Very provocative. Wonderfully well acted."