Review of Fox and His Friends (1975) by Robert C — 19 Jun 2012

Fox (played by director Rainier Werner Fassbinder himself) is a carnival worker and homo-sexual, who loses his lover and job when his significant other is arrested for tax fraud. Broke, he decides to find another lover, of which is a supervisor for major manufacturing company, at a party and the two hook up.

In addition, Fox also wins the lottery, for which he spends much of his money on his new love. While the story is interesting enough, my major reservation is the male nudity. There is a WAY TOO MUCH full frontal and I know that the majority of the characters are gay, but the movie did not need to show their penises.

I figured that the director was homosexual when I saw extensive male nudity in two of his others films "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" and "The Marriage of Maria Braun," although nudity was used in those films with more reservation, thankfully.

Had there been less full frontal male nudity, the film would have been better.