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Chinese Roulette 15 rating

Psychodrama with a vengeance: Anna Karina stars in Fassbinder’s first international co-production; another deadly assault on the institution of marriage.

Drama 1976 86 mins

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Overview

Psychodrama with a vengeance: Anna Karina stars in Fassbinder’s first international co-production; another deadly assault on the institution of marriage, drenched in gothic atmosphere. An embittered adolescent (‘they hate me because I’m crippled!’) brings her emotionally estranged parents together for a country-house weekend full of shocking revelations.

Michael Ballhaus’s camera, ruthless and restless, leads us through a labyrinth of lies.