Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fox and his Friends (Fraustrecht der Freiheit) | West Germany | 1975 | 35mm | 124 min. | German with English subtitles Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Event Details
Date
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Time
2 p.m.
Location
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Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm
Fassbinder himself stars as an unemployed gay man who suddenly becomes rich—if no less vulnerable to bourgeois exploitation—after winning the national lottery. Aided by Michael Ballhaus’s evocative cinematography and Leonard Cohen’s melancholy tunes, this dazzling mixture of humanistic tragedy and etched-in-acid social criticism firmly established RFW’s international reputation.
Fassbinder himself stars as an unemployed gay man who suddenly becomes rich—if no less vulnerable to bourgeois exploitation—after winning the national lottery. Aided by Michael Ballhaus’s evocative cinematography and Leonard Cohen’s melancholy tunes, this dazzling mixture of humanistic tragedy and etched-in-acid social criticism firmly established RFW’s international reputation.
Cost
Free
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