Not Coming to a Theater Near You
What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
Fassbinder’s statement about class division within a community of gays in Germany, circa 1976. I must admit that I saw the fate of the hapless Franz Bieberkopf, a.k.a., “Fox”, played by Fassbinder, a naïve carnival worker (“lottery queen”) who hooks up with a bourgeois aesthete, immediately. The subsequent playing out of the drama didn’t reveal anything more than what one would expect with such a scenario, though the honesty with which Fassbinder portrays Fox is refreshing and admirable. The title is certainly a cynical poke at the lack of meaningful relationships found in the pre-AIDS gay community of that time. It’s worth a viewing.
by Marlin Tyree | Source: Fox Lorber DVD
10 Mar 2007 2:49 PM | Submit Comment
