A group of youths struggle to make ends meet in their jobs selling newspapers. They decide that they need to take the law into their hands and get some money. To this end they carry out a house-invasion and rob a woman. There really isn't a lot to say about The Little Chaos. It's clearly a product of the New Wave. More specifically, it seems to be influenced by Jean Luc Godard's earlier À Bout de Soufflé, with its depiction of young hoodlums and it's allusions to American gangster pictures. It seems to be quite self-consciously cool like that film too. It's really too short to make very much of an impression though. And it just seems like director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was having a bit of fun with this one. The Little Chaos is no more than a little diversion.
Review of The Little Chaos
