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Release Date: 13 May, 2003 Retail Price: $24.98 OUR Price: $22.48 You SAVE: $2.50! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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Satan's brew
One of the funniest, darkest movies about the sort of self-serving, pretentious rock-star types you will ever see. Kurt Raab gives an incredible performance as the dillusional poet who fancies himself the latter-day Stefan George after he writes a poem that matches George's identically and finds out from his wife and lover. He sculpts himself in the mold of George to the point of even trying the homosexual lifestyle, and failing miserably.
Quite possibly Fassbinder's best movie. I highly recommend this movie, but don't take notes on how to live from Raab's character!
Sorry, it's bad
Don't get me wrong, I am a Fassbinder fan. I just find 'Satan's Brew' to be a depressing, over-indulgent mess. It may be a gloomy observation, but you can almost see this work as a sign that Fassbinder's life would eventually come to a tragic end; six years later, the director was dead.
Kurt Raab plays one of the most detestable characters ever in film. Volker Spengler is good as always, but he really is playing a sick puppy in this one. And I'm still shocked that that is Margit Cartensen playing that extremely unbecoming sycophant who is enraptured (unbelievably) with Raab's character. I didn't realize that it was actually Cartensen until I read a cast list for the film afterwards on allmovie.com (this is the same actress who played Petra Von Kant and Martha??).
I've read that Fassbinder wrote this film to express the sense of "anger" that he often felt when reading the newspaper or listening to the news. It shows - this is a very bitter, repugnant film. Fassbinder's clever wit is far better displayed in films like 'Chinese Roulette' and 'Merchant of Four Seasons.' Leave 'Satan's Brew' at the bottom of your list of must-sees.
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