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Chinese Roulette is a cruel movie. It is firmly stuck in Fassbinder's harsh, icy world and is a film of cold intellectualism. Set in a house of dishonesty, Chinese Roulette functions as a beautiful chamber piece. Yet it slowly reveals social anarchy and the everyday fascism of family life.
Chinese Roulette is a cruel movie. It is firmly stuck in Fassbinder's harsh, icy world and is a film of cold intellectualism. Set in a house of dishonesty, Chinese Roulette functions as a beautiful chamber piece. Yet it slowly reveals social anarchy and the everyday fascism of family life. It's just one long buildup of simmering tension (sexual ...
Jun 10, 2003 · An elegantly baroque exercise from the middle of his brief and brilliant career, Chinese Roulette finds Rainer Werner Fassbinder exploring the sinister side of a weekend in the country. At an isolated mansion, a husband and wife bump into each other--with their lovers in tow.
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Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1978 • West Germany Starring Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny. Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war.
Chinesisches Roulette (Chinese Roulette) The story of a long weekend at a secluded Franconian country estate. As a surprise to all parties concerned, the property owners meet there, although they had assured each other that they would be gone on business travel in very different directions. Those who meet are the couple Ariane (Margit ...
Jan 27, 2024 · Chinese Roulette works because all the characters are complex, neither wholly good nor wholly bad. Through them, Fassbinder pokes at ideas of repressed truth, making a comment not only about this ...
Critics reviews. Ariane and Gerhard, a wealthy Munich couple, are off on separate holidays. Both have arranged liaisons with their lovers: he with his long-time mistress, she with Gerhard’s assistant. But the couples are in for a weekend of shocking revelations when they both arrive at the family country estate.
