Excellent Fassbinder film from the director's Douglas Sirk-influenced period.
Chinese Roulette (1976)
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Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 6
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A sickly, physically challenged teenage girl lures her dissolute upper-class parents, their respective lovers, and an assortment of employees and hangers-on to the family's country estate for a... A sickly, physically challenged teenage girl lures her dissolute upper-class parents, their respective lovers, and an assortment of employees and hangers-on to the family's country estate for a weekend of cruel and revelatory parlor games. [More]
Starring: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, Brigitte Mira
Starring: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, Brigitte Mira
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Reviews for Chinese Roulette
Taking one step at a time, Mr. Fassbinder is exploring new methods of cinema narrative that are more original and daring than anything I've yet to see by film makers who call themselves avant-garde.
A rigorous extrapolation of deception as a survival tactic, and a vicious indictment of victimhood, martyrdom and the games people will play in order to destroy one other.
Chinese Roulette is one of those films where you hate every single one of the characters yet can?t tear yourself away from them until you find out how they end up.
The camera seems much more interested in exploring the glass and chrome furnishings than in examining the characters, and by the time the film is finished, so is the audience.
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