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Beware of a Holy Whore (1970)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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From Time Out Film Guide
A film about film-making with roots in Fassbinder's unhappy experience shooting Whity in Spain. A German unit stalled by financial and technical problems, lethargically brooding in a Spanish hotel, is finally galvanised by the arrival of the manic director (Castel) and laconic star (Constantine) into a frenzy of activity which ends - the film they are making is a denunciation of state-sanctioned violence - in a concerted attack on the director. Tediously self-indulgent yet fascinating, it works better in its exploration of sexual frustrations than in its thesis that cinema should not be allowed to remain 'a holy whore of entertainment'.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Lou Castel, Hanna Schygulla, Eddie Constantine, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Marquard Bohm, Marcella Michelangeli full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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