A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go to the family's county home, Traunitz castle. Surprising each other, there's sophisticated laughter; they decide to continue as planned. Dinner, however, is interrupted by the arrival of Angela and her mute attendant, also named Traunitz. The next day, the chil... (Full plot summary below)
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A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go to the family's county home, Traunitz castle. Surprising each other, there's sophisticated laughter; they decide to continue as planned. Dinner, however, is interrupted by the arrival of Angela and her mute attendant, also named Traunitz. The next day, the child initiates a game of "Chinese roulette," in which one team tries to guess which of them the other team is thinking of by asking questions. The game has an edge of cruelty and the results are explosive.
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| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezA rigorous extrapolation of deception as a survival tactic, and a vicious indictment of victimhood, martyrdom and the games people will play in order to destroy one other. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyTaking one step at a time, Mr. Fassbinder is exploring new methods of cinema narrative that are more original and daring than anything I've yet to see by film makers who call themselves avant-garde. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIf the premise suggests Noël Coward's Private Lives with an acrid dash of Pinter, Fassbinder is nothing if not winkingly in command of this brittle theatrical idiom. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyChinese Roulette is one of those films where you hate every single one of the characters yet can?t tear yourself away from them until you find out how they end up. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceFassbinder's grinning, glittering comedy. |
| User ReviewMichael TOverwrought melodrama as only Fassbinder could do. |
| User ReviewCarlos MIt's fitting that a chess board is prominently displayed in the main set of "Chinese Roulette," because this claustrophobic Fassbinder classic is all about games, strategy and mathematics. Essentially, the story is a jousting tournament of four couples: a husband (Alexander Allerson) and his long-time mistress (Anna Karina, doing her best to stay afloat in a German-language film); his icy wife (stunning Margit Carstensen) and her lover (Uli Lommel); the couple's vicious, crippled daughter (Andrea Schober) and her deaf-mute governess (Macha Meril); and a crabby housekeeper (Brigitte Mira) and her ridiculous son (Volker Spengler). Plenty of Fassbinder regulars among the cast. Perversely, the daughter's handicap draws no sympathy from the other characters or even the audience, because she is so bitter, hateful and ruthless. It is she who sets the conflict in motion, via coldly engineering a surprise meeting between the two philandering couples at a beautiful, getaway mansion. To give more plot would be saying too much, but the film is thoroughly compelling over its brief 84 minutes, and it adds an ambiguous denouement that's bound to cause a discussion with your date. |
| User ReviewAnne FEin Kammerspiel. Sehr bizarr. Sehr kalt und verstoerend. Die Message kam fuer mich nicht rueber. |
| User ReviewJohn MFassbinder tries to be clever. It doesn't work. |
