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In this dark examination of love and money, Fox (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) is a young, gay member of the German working class. When he meets the older and dapper Max, who has upper-class roots ...
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May 31, 2019 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder, left, with Peter Chatel in “Fox and His Friends,” Fassbinder’s 1975 film about a working-class gay man exploited by his upper-class lover. Credit... The Criterion...
A working-class German (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) is exploited by his lover (Peter Chatel).
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A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend (Peter Chatel) and his ...
Moving along through director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films, Criterion next presents Fox and His Friendson Blu-ray, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a 4K restoration taken from a scan of the original camera negative. Similar to the other recent presentations for Fa...
The German 1.0 monaural PCM track sounds clean with no damage or distortion present, but there’s a real flatness to it, from spoken dialogue to music, dialogue in particular sounding hollow. It appears most (if not all) of the dialogue is dubbed over, which may partially explain that somewhat detached, flat sound, but other than that the sound is f...
The pickings for special features on Fassbinder and his work are probably getting slim as Criterion makes their way through his films, but they’ve still managed to dig up some decent archival material and record a couple of new interviews, though admittedly it doesn’t add up to a lot. The first interview, running 17-minutes, features actor Harry Ba...
Aug 31, 2003 · One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s towering masterworks, Fox and His Friends is the devastating story of a poor circus worker who wins the lottery and finds himself fleeced out of his fortune by lecherous upper-class monsters. The film begins with Franz Bieberkopf, alias Fox (Fassbinder), firmly planted at the bottom of the culture’s social ...
Jan 17, 2017 · To revisit Rainer Werner Fassbinder ’s Fox and His Friends in 2017, some forty years after its 1975 release, is to realize how unnervingly astute the prolific and infamous filmmaker managed to convey the troubling classist ideals which continue to plague the queer community in the same fashion across cultures today.
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Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany. Drama Ratings and reviews
