Love is Colder Than Death

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first feature film is a joy of experimentation and an homage to his influences from the French New Wave, particularly Godard, though also to a lesser extent, Eric Rohmer. Despite the critical consensus of this being average-to-lesser Fassbinder, I found it to be one of his most enjoyable films. It's one of those pseudo-gangster films (like the early films of Godard and Truffaut), in which Fassbinder plays a pimp who refuses to get involved with the mob and ultimately leads to something of a bank robbery. It features his developing trademark camerawork, and the usual complex relational dynamics.