Love Is Colder Than Death is heavily abstracted, with the characters more like models in a fashion layout than people in a story.

The makings of a powerful filmmaker are clearly in evidence.

These disquieting moments evoke a strange and complex sexual relationship between the film's characters bound to end in ravishing betrayals.

Basking in drawn-out pauses and uninterrupted tracking shots, Fassbinder strives to make his audience feel a profound discomfort and delights in presenting an errant challenge to his viewers’ integrity.