Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fass binder's Fear Eats the Soul is the powerful story of a young Moroccan worker and an ageing cleaning lady who fall in love. The reactions of their peers are at times a little too satirically chicle to be as biting as they should, and a couple of scenes edge towards a rather crass sentimentality. But they do no more than edge, and the moving performances of both leads make this a film well worth seeing.