LOLA (1981)
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Plot
An homage to Josef Von Steinberg's The Blue Angel, Lola is a cabaret singer and prostitute who spots an opportunity to improve her social standing when a straight-laced buildings commissioner falls for her charms. As usual, Fassbinder creates a touchingly humorous portrait of human weakness and strength all painted with a lusiciously garish palette and a heavy dollop of melodramic kitsch.