An early Mike Leigh
This is like a Mike Leigh film.
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1424542/#Please watch and vote share
I agree with you. Mike Leigh's characters resemble the weirdness of Fassbinder's. It is hard to explain for me how they are portrayed. A little grotesque I guess. They just don't seem like people from this world. I don't know. They are both great artists.
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