I didn't really like it.
It's not bad but not my taste, to slow, to depressing and kinda boring.
I usually like Fassbinder's works but this one is some kind of exception. Strange...
Gave it only 6/10.
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I like it too, and gave it a similar rating. I think it's Fassbinder's first 'good film'; not a masterpiece, but a nice development from Love is Colder than Death and Katzelmacher. It is still heavily indebted to Godard, particularly Bande à part, but since I'm a fan of Godard I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing.
Fassbinder would eventually find his own individual voice a couple of years later with The Merchant of Four Seasons (his first great film, IMO)