The City Tramp is an interesting 11 minute short from Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film focuses on a homeless man that finds a gun and contemplates suicide. The City Tramp is one of Fassbinder's earliest films but it contains everything I love about his style of film-making. It's equal parts melodramatic and melancholic and as with all his films it manages to tap the juicy vein of social commentary in a way so few directors are able to.
I started this year not seeing or knowing anything about Fassbinder, and I now finish the year with him being one of my favourite directors iv'e seen so far!!
