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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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One of Fassbinder's most poignant melodramas, Fox and His...
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One of Fassbinder's most poignant melodramas, Fox and His Friends has lost none its resonance as both pointed social commentary and a moral fable. Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep...
Fox and His Friends. Franz "Fox" is a working-class, carnival worker in need of cash for his weekly lottery purchase. He's picked up by an older man named Max, who introduces him to two...
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Fox and His Friends: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven. A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1976-02-02
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- Picture 9/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 5/10
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...
Nov 17, 2015 · Fox and His Friends. Tuesday 17 November 2015. Written by GA. Time Out says. One of Fassbinder's excellent melodramas. The director himself plays a working-class man who wins a small...
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Fox and His Friends (German: Faustrecht der Freiheit, lit. 'Freedom's Law of the Jungle'; also known as Fist-Right of Freedom) is a 1975 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Fassbinder, Peter Chatel and Karlheinz Böhm.
