A. O. Scott
The New York Times
The first episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 13-part (plus epilogue), 151/2-hour adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel, is called The Punishment Begins. There is a heavy, obvious irony, since the hero of this modern urban anti-epic, a former pimp named Franz Biberkopf, has just been released from Tegei Prison, where he has served a four-year sentence for beating his girlfriend to death.
But a life at liberty in the bowels of a 20th-century metropolis, in Döblin and Fassbinder’s vision, is a purgatory without limit; by comparison, the brick fastness of the penitentiary has an appealing monastic simplicity. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (8498 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 8 aprile 2007
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