A heartbreaking tragedy and incisive class drama, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends stars the director himself as Fox, a working-class gay hustler who wins the lottery and, soon after, the affections of a bourgeois antique dealer. But such divergent backgrounds loom over the star-crossed lovers, and successive misfortunes suggest that perhaps love cannot conquer all. Fassbinder was an addict and a libertine who slept with partners of all gender identities and expressions, and no film quite captures the turmoil of his personal life like this one.
“Here is a movie about characters who define themselves by their sexuality, but the movie doesn’t. It takes the sexuality as a given, and defines them by their values and morals.” – Roger Ebert
