Fox and His Friends (1975)

We keep on going down the yellow brick road because this month MOVIES ARE GAY and  today we dive into a bleak and brutal selection from the prolific gay German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A young working class gay man, Fox, wins the lottery and becomes targeted by a couple of upper class gay cons into falling in love and spending off all of his winnings. Twisted emotions, brutal relationships and layers of class within gay life are examined in Fassbinder’s “Fox and His Friends”. That’s the English title anyway. The German title read something like “The Law of Freedom”. MOVIES ARE GAY and a lot of gay movies are sad but Fassbinder’s 1975 film finds some brutal character well beyond the surface identity that modern movies so easily congratulate themselves for. Honestly, we love sad shit like this.

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