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This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the critics to have succeeded both technically and as drama. In it, a German film crew sits in their Italian hotel, waiting for the arrival of their director (Lou Castel), their star (Eddie Constantine) and more money. While they wait, argue, complain, and enter and leave romances, the delusions of a whole community of filmmakers are humorously unveiled. This film is said to be
Unrated, 1 hr. 57 min.
Jan 1, 1971 Limited
May 20, 2003
New Yorker Films
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Beware of a Holy Whore is the work of a very young, very gifted film maker.
[An] edgy, violent, impacted movie.
Beware of a Holy Whore is the film you would make if you spent the previous ten years on a steady diet of Godard and Warhol, with occasional afternoons cleared for Antonioni and every night reserved for hard drinking.
Interesting, but static and overlong.
Fassbinder stacks the cast around the limited space with the mastery of a chess player, creating a strong sense of ennui, sexual frustration and creative stagnation.
Whore of a film.
...the film is frustratingly funny, unmistakably self-indulgent, but with the assurance that what R.W. is indulging himself in is something he's good at doing.
Beware of a Holy Whore is essentially Contempt by way of Andy Warhol's Factory.
Whorendous.
Beware of a Holy Whore is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's -- the Seventies' enfant terrible of foreign filmmaking -- quintessential film.
Beware of a holy whore is life imitating art and a very self-indulgent parody from Fassbinder. It reminded me of Jean-Luc Godard's Passion (A film I didn't particularly enjoy - although Passion came later). Worth watching for Eddie Constantine's trade-mark scowl but apart from that, a somewhat tiresome film from
April 18, 2011Super Reviewer
Fassbinder's (self-?)parody gets a bit monotonous after a while & feels forced & too obvious at times but overall the whole thing works somehow, Fassbinder & Castel are fun to watch
January 2, 2010Super Reviewer
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