Editing Rainer Werner Fassbinder (section)

====''Satan's Brew'' (1976)====
In a time of professional crisis, Fassbinder made ''[[Satan's Brew]]'' (''Satansbraten'', 1976) a bleak amoral comedy that pays homage to [[Antonin Artaud]]'s [[theatre of cruelty]]. Stylistically far from the melodramas that made him known internationally, ''Satan's Brew'' gave way to a new phase in his career. In ''Satan's Brew'', a neurotic poet suffering from writer's block struggles to make ends meet while dealing with a frustrated long suffering wife, a half witted brother and various prostitutes and masochist women who drift in and out of his life. He convinces himself to be the reincarnation of the gay romantic poet [[Stefan George]] (1868–1933) after he plagiarizes his poem ''The Albatros''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brightlightsfilm.com/a-german-tragedy-turned-absurd-fassbinders-satans-brew/|title=A German Tragedy, Turned Absurd: Fassbinder's Satan's Brew|date=1 February 2010|website=Bright Lights Film Journal|language=en-US|access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref>