This actually may be the most accessible and the most commercial thing about Rainer Werner Fassbinder. I would like to believe that even people who are not into him, would find something here they might like ... having said that, the movie is a biopic that feels like a stage play most of the time ... and it also has nudity and a lot of other things (gay love for example) that some may have issues with.

It is not for the faint hearted for sure or those who are easily offended. Do not watch this if you are in one of these groups. Watch if you are curious what drove a man that seems missunderstood a lot. Or at least that is how he feels. They are things here that defy any political correctness - use of the n word and much more. Now it is just giving you what it was like and what people said and did ... you are the one who will be the judge - what you make of these things.

Very good acting involved and at least for me a new perspective on an individual I did not have before (not sure how fans of his might react to certain things)

EnfantTerrible is the story of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society whole achieving the love and respect of the outsiders of society. As he rises to become among the most important directors in Europe, his body and mind decline and he dies an early death.

Director Oskar Roehler and writer Klaus Richter have a tough task on their hands: how to take the unlikable and caustic hero and make him someone we want to learn more about and care for. Oliver Masucci, who has the lead, is easily able to take on this task, as he's played someone even more unlikable - Adolf Hitler himself - in the 2015 comedy Look Who's Back.

It's to the filmmakers credit that they did not shy from controversy. However, when the material is well-known, that's usually not a worry. I loved the play-within-a-movie conceit of this, as so many of us only associate Fassbinder with film.

Well, this time I got the right "Enfant Terrible" film, not that atrocity of the film art called "L'Enfant Terrible"... so I could enjoy the story of one of my favorite directors - Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

I watched and enjoyed many of his movies but I wasn't really aware how screwed his life was! Oskar Roehler delivered a realistically portrayed biography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder - a kind of political manifesto intertwined with subject's personal life! It was done so well, that I could fully immerse into the weirdness, awkwardness and sickness of the guy who was a real genius, but lasted only 36 years on this Earth because could not control his urge for the self-destruction!

Difficult to watch but always fascinating with very interesting directing choices!