When Fear Eats the Soul

When Fear Eats the Soul

2007 · 25 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic contamination.

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