Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 1982

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A chilly, tough, wicked satire disguised as the sort of schmaltzy, black-and-white, 1950's melodrama. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The situation soon freezes into an inert, rather facile metaphor for America's postwar domination of the German soul. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Fassbinder's visual style is the perfect match for this subject. Read more

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Gary Arnold, Washington Post: Far from apprehending this effect as a felicitous esthetic touch, one simply gets the creeps from it. Veronika Voss is no doubt a peculiarly authentic last testament and premonition of oblivion, but there is no comfort or gratification in it. Read more