Beware of a Holy Whore

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.

Beware of a Holy Whore is a satirical metafilm about Fassbinders previous production, Whity. It opens with a soliloquy delivered by Werner Schroeter about the synopsis of a Disney short featuring Goofy, the dog. Goofy crossdresses in his aunts clothes to teach a kindergarten class and, after being ridiculed by the class, takes a poor orphan girl into his home. The little girl is actually a dwarf gangster, Wee Willy, and he fools Goofy into caring for him by wearing the clothes that Goofy discarded after being ridiculed by the school children. That night Goofys house is raided by police and Wee Willy is arrested, revealing the poor orphan girls true identity to Goofy. When Willys true identity is revealed the confused Goofy says, What a shock that must have been for the poor little girl when she discovered that she is a crook. In both instancesattempting to teach the kindergarten class and caring for Wee WillyGoofy is beaten by those for whom he only sought to care. This opening soliloquy alludes to the films underlying themes of violence, selfblindness, and samesex and bisexual relationships. The action of the movie then moves to a coastal hotel in Spain where the cast of the films metafilm Patria O Muerte English Motherland or Death are waiting for production money and the director Lou Castel and the star Eddie Constantine, as himself to arrive. While waiting for everything the cast engages in sexual intrigues both samesex and oppositesex, slander, and challenging power dynamics amongst themselves. The director then arrives by helicopter and inserts himself in the mix of cast interactions in a draconian manner, flaring the already discordant interactions among the cast. The remainder of the production depicts the mayhem of a movie production wrought with vicissitude and conflicting power dynamics. Fassbinder described the production as a film about why living and working together as a group doesnt function, even with people who want it to and for whom the gr

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