Essential Cinema: The Bitter Tears of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Germany, 1971, 1h 43min, 35mm, In German with English Subtitles

Essential Cinema  The Bitter Tears of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

Fassbinder’s ultimate hang-out movie. As a movie production awaits financing, the restless cast and crew languish in an Italian resort hotel. Based on a true situation that befell Fassbinder and his crew, the film is full of funny rants, ill-advised hook-ups, in-jokes and, in between all the tension, moments of true cinematic beauty.

ABOUT THIS SERIES

This series celebrates the prolific master of New German Cinema and his razor-sharp gaze at culture and society across genre and style. Presented in conjunction with the restoration of his series of TV films, EIGHT HOURS DON’T MAKE A DAY.

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