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Release Date: 02 July, 2002 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Fox and His Friends Reviews
Nice Guys Finish Last
Fassbinder gave it all in this film. To play the lead,he lost a lot of weight & was willing to go naked. Fox is a nice guy but a loser. Suddenly he wins the lottery. Aspiring to upgrade his life, he gets in a relationship with a "class" guy. Eventually Fox finds his new friends are worse than the old ones. By then he's lost everything. Fox is often reviewed as gay cinema, but I would like to see a straight film with the same plot. Fox can be taken to be the curse of being in the wrong body. To me Fox is more about Fassbinders fear that to be a good guy is to lose.
A Gripping and Poignant Gay Tragedy; BoundTo Be A Classic
"Fox, a bumbling but sincere and big hearted unsophisicated carvinal worker who's job is terminate when his boyfriend, the carnival owner, is arrested by the German police. Out of a Job, Fox wins the 500,000 DM lottery and finds a new group of friends who pounce on the oppertunity to swindle him out of his winnings. His new b/f selects the apartment and furniture, purchased from the b/f's friends gallery; new clothes, a trip to Morocco, and a loan to the b/f's parents failing business drain poor Fox'es wealth.
As the film progress you cannot help but to have sympathy for Fox; and all his attempts to win the love and affection of his goldigging lover and unscrupulous friends. Let me warn you; this is not a "feel good" film; but rather be ready to be appalled by how far the depth of human cruelty can decend.
It's beautifully directed, the scenes flow smoothly, art direction and cinematography are all first rate with no flaws to distract you from the quality of this production; and Fassbinder plays his characther so convincingly, I wondered how this inept individual (Fox) could produce such a movie. Made circa 1974 but certainly not dated in focus and depth.
The conclusion will break your heart; and if you havn't devlopment a sense of compassion and sympathy for Fassbinder's character by the end of this film, you have ice water in your veins. A gripping and poignant gay tragedy; worthy of your conceration and as an addition to your collection of gay works.
Thankyou for reading this review; I hope it enlightened you on this truely magnificant story.
Jerry Balmes
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