Fox and His Friends
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Essential Cinema
Fox and His Friends
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Friday, June 26, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
Saturday, June 27, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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 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, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 124 minutes. Recommended for 17+.
Essential Cinema
Fox and His Friends
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Friday, June 26, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
Saturday, June 27, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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 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, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 124 minutes. Recommended for 17+.