Not Coming to a Theater Near You
You know him?”
“Not socially. His name’s Jaws, he kills people.
Fassbinder’s statement about class division within a community of gays in Germany, circa 1976. I must admit that I saw the fate of the hapless Franz Bieberkopf, a.k.a., “Fox”, played by Fassbinder, a naïve carnival worker (“lottery queen”) who hooks up with a bourgeois aesthete, immediately. The subsequent playing out of the drama didn’t reveal anything more than what one would expect with such a scenario, though the honesty with which Fassbinder portrays Fox is refreshing and admirable. The title is certainly a cynical poke at the lack of meaningful relationships found in the pre-AIDS gay community of that time. It’s worth a viewing.
by Marlin Tyree | Source: Fox Lorber DVD
10 Mar 2007 2:49 PM | Submit Comment
