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I Only Want You to Love Me
(Ich will doch nur, dass ihr mich liebt)

Screening on Film
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson.
West Germany, 1976, 35mm, color, 104 min.
German with English subtitles.

Another portrait of the emptiness of the middle-class ethos, I Only Want You to Love Me is a rarely-screened work, commissioned by German television. In it Fassbinder follows a maladjusted young construction worker who, having endured a loveless childhood, attempts to buy the love he feels has been denied him. During his free time, Peter builds his parents a house and purchases expensive furniture and appliances for his wife. Under the strain of mounting debts and long work days, he eventually snaps and, in a moment of disassociation, enters the realm of classic Fassbinderian violence.

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