Thsi is a wonderful noir by Fassbinder that recalls the classic film actors more than it does the gritty analyses of post war German economic success that he gave us in Lola and Maria Braun. I thought about Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Preminger's Laura and Hitchcock's Notorious... anything but a remake of a drug-addiction film.
Rosel Zech as Veronika Voss is wonderful; her wistful faded elegance in the scenes with Krone is memorable. Hilmar Thate plays a reporter who's in over his head trying to write about a faded film star, as his editor reminds him; it's a performance that reminds me of Dana Andrews in Laura. The cinematography by Xaver Schwarzenberger is superb: the rainy night scenes and the glaring white of the clinic were very well rendered.
Rosel Zech as Veronika Voss is wonderful; her wistful faded elegance in the scenes with Krone is memorable. Hilmar Thate plays a reporter who's in over his head trying to write about a faded film star, as his editor reminds him; it's a performance that reminds me of Dana Andrews in Laura. The cinematography by Xaver Schwarzenberger is superb: the rainy night scenes and the glaring white of the clinic were very well rendered.