Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Rebel of German Cinema
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS
Wednesday, June 5th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social
captivity, in this cynical classic about love and exploitation. Casting himself
against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets
himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of
materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only
Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing
social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial
depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany. (1975, 124 mins)