Review of Whity
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First, the movie is about Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s seventh feature is a widescreen mix of hothouse southern gothic melodrama and edgy spaghetti western in sunbaked color. Whity (Günther Kaufmann, a longtime Fassbinder regular), the obedient family butler, is the illegitimate mulatto son of sadistic, bullwhip-wielding patriarch Ben Nicholson (American B-movie actor Ron Randell). The ghoulish Nicholson family members include a nymphomaniacal young wife and a brutal, homosexual eldest son (coproducer and future director Ulli Lommell) who abuse yet secretly love Whity, and a developmentally disabled youngest son whom Whity protects from the others like a brother. It’s a grotesque portrait even for Fassbinder, who cakes the Nicholson family faces with gray makeup–they look and at times act like dead-eyed zombies–and sets them plotting against each other. Hannah Schygulla costars as a saloon singer who warbles Kurt Weill-like tunes, and Fassbinder himself plays a gambler who whips Whity for fun. It was Fassbinder’s first feature abroad–he shot it on Sergio Leone’s western sets in Almeria, Spain–and the first of many collaborations with Michael Ballhaus. The behind-the-scenes drama was so eventful that it inspired Beware of a Holy Whore only months later. –Sean Axmaker.
I really enjoyed the performace of Günther Kaufmann and Günther Kaufmann. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann, Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel.
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