Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Melodrama, biography, memoir, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period in the spirit of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as Penman's equivalent of what Baudelaire was to Benjamin: an urban poet in the turbulent, seeds-sown, messy era just before everything changed. Beautifully written and extraordinarily compelling, echoing the fragmentary works of Roland Barthes and Emil Cioran, Eduardo Galeano and Alexander Kluge, this story has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city, cinema, and revolution.