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Beware of a Holy Whore
In an elegant Spanish hotel lobby, a film cast and crew outdo one another in displays of professional and sexual rivalry while waiting endlessly for shooting to begin.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Overview
In an elegant Spanish hotel lobby, a film cast and crew outdo one another in displays of professional and sexual rivalry while waiting endlessly for shooting to begin. Directly inspired by the troubled shoot of his previous film, the spaghetti western Whity, Fassbinder paints the creative process as a clash of monstrous egos; of which few are more unflattering than Lou Castel's take on the tyrannical director himself.
Choreographed like a ballet to music by Peer Raben, Donizetti, Elvis Presley and Leonard Cohen β and shot by the masterly Michael Ballhaus β this is Fassbinder's gorgeous ode to filmmaking, warts and all.
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