Great & twisted. Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde are both fantastic. Wicked.
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
The Night Porter
Posted by Jürgen on June 22, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/06/22/the-night-porter/
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/ June 24, 2006My smug review from 2003:
The Night Porter (1974), Liliana Cavani, A-
Nazi sex offenders and the women who love them! Truly one of the most original movies I’ve seen in a while. Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde in a cross of “Last Tango in Paris” with the denazification process. A little over-the-top at times (no doubt our boy David Lynch was inspired by this picture) but I bought it. With so many movies about drug addiction it is great to see self-destructive behavior filmed in new ways – like continually submitting yourself Nazi rape! Note – if a woman didn’t write and direct this I don’t see how it could’ve ever been released.