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

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.

slow-burntensebleakclaustrophobicunsettlingcerebraldarkly comicstagnant

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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