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Re: Fassbinder's DESPAIR (fwd)
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From: Roy Johnson <Roy@mantex.demon.co.uk>
In your message dated Sunday 18, February 1996 you wrote :
> From: Michael Cunningham <mcunn@melbpc.org.au>
> I don't know of any scholarly work on Despair (which IMHO is one of
> Fassbinder's - and everyone else's - dreariest efforts) as such
Oh, I don't know! It has several redeeming features.
Bogarde gives a nicely fussy performance (rather like that in
DEATH IN VENICE) and the two German actors capture the stupidity
and vulgarity of their characters very well.
There is some superb camera-work, particularly the play with
windows and mirrors, and even Stoppard comes up with some
memorable lines - "I'm writing a book on schizophrenia - in fact
I might write *two*"
Fassbinder has made much worse films than this. I've sat through
many (as an admirer of his work)... and don't take *his* word
for it, for goodness sake.
--
Dr Roy Johnson | Roy@mantex.demon.co.uk
PO Box 100 | Tel +44 0161 432 5811
Manchester UK | Fax +44 0161 443 2766
In your message dated Sunday 18, February 1996 you wrote :
> From: Michael Cunningham <mcunn@melbpc.org.au>
> I don't know of any scholarly work on Despair (which IMHO is one of
> Fassbinder's - and everyone else's - dreariest efforts) as such
Oh, I don't know! It has several redeeming features.
Bogarde gives a nicely fussy performance (rather like that in
DEATH IN VENICE) and the two German actors capture the stupidity
and vulgarity of their characters very well.
There is some superb camera-work, particularly the play with
windows and mirrors, and even Stoppard comes up with some
memorable lines - "I'm writing a book on schizophrenia - in fact
I might write *two*"
Fassbinder has made much worse films than this. I've sat through
many (as an admirer of his work)... and don't take *his* word
for it, for goodness sake.
--
Dr Roy Johnson | Roy@mantex.demon.co.uk
PO Box 100 | Tel +44 0161 432 5811
Manchester UK | Fax +44 0161 443 2766