Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
- Original title
- Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Genre
- drama film, art film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 61 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A film crew waits for their director at a hotel. With too much alcohol and drugs, tensions rise and people start falling apart.
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What happens
Beware of a Holy Whore (German: Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte) is a 1971 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that features Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla and Fassbinder himself. Fassbinder considered this to be his favorite of his own films. While in a hotel with too much drink, drugs and time, the cast and crew of a film are gradually unravelling as they await the arrival of their director. Semi-autobiographical, the film was influenced by the shooting of the director's earlier Whity in Spain. The film features music from Leonard Cohen's first album Songs of Leonard Cohen and from Spooky Two by Spooky Tooth, among others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Das falsche Gewicht (1971)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.