Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
October 4, 2014
A rather sweet, yet powerful love story, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a reworking of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 masterpiece, All That Heaven Allows. An unapologetic weepy, Sirk’s film concerns a forbidden romance between a rich widow and her younger gardener. Within a melodramatic structure, Sirk managed to reveal dome disturbing truths about how social mores allow us to exclude people offhand. German director Rainer