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WHAT’S YOUR FASSBINDER RELATIONSHIP STYLE?

A quiz that uses the bad boy of 1970s cinema to help you navigate love

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Brian J Davis and Emily Schultz
Sep 08, 2024
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The late Rainer Werner Fassbinder was many things. Raging art monster? Check. Human cocaine grinder? Check. Fedora trailblazer? Check. But above and beyond everything else he put love at the center of his films, in all its expressions and mutations. Not that he lived up to it too often, but only a big softie could write the line, “We must be nice to each other. Otherwise, life's not worth living.”

That’s why we here at Medium Cool have come up with a formula to find out what your cinematic relationship style is.

From the buttons below, click on your favorite or most recently seen Fassbinder film.

ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

FOX AND HIS FRIENDS

THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT

BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE

CHINESE ROULETTE

QUERELLE

ASSASSIN'S CREED

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Relationship Style: Optimist/Avoidant

Advice: Learn how to make couscous, it’s not that hard

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