Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1969)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A middle-class German, like millions of other middle-class Germans, leads a life of boredom and quiet desperation. Between the blandness of his job and the disappointments and frustration of his... [More]
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab, Lilith Ungerer
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
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Reviews for Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
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provocative film that certainly isn't easy to forget%u2014as long as you patiently sit through its entirety Full Review |
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A dark and bitter work that is difficult for some viewers and fascinating for others. Full Review |
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Works as caustic anti-theater theater. Full Review |
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A revealing demonstration of how the style of a Fassbinder film becomes its subject. Full Review |
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3/4 |
'Its condemnation of the acceptance of life as determined by societal convention is so strongly felt that the extremity of the finale is...as encouraging as it is disturbing.' Full Review |
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Fassbinder navigates carefully between mockery and empathy, heightening the interior drama with his superior staging. Full Review |
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