Rio das Mortes
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Actor: Hanna Axmann-Rezzori, Harry Baer, Ingrid Caven, Marius Aicher, Rudolf Waldemar BremDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
Published: 2002-11-01
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Rio das Mortes
Movie Review: What's The Deal?
Summary: 5 Stars
Almost every review I have read of this film treats it as lesser Fassbinder but I think its a wonderful little movie. Its just so much fun. I found the the film to be a refreshing breath of fresh air because there is a heavy sense of gloom over many of the themes in RWF's films (granted i love this aspect about them - let it be said he is my favorite director ever)...But in this film...Hanna Schygulla, Gunther Kauffman, Fassbinder they are all so likeable in this and the story is so simple yet engaging...Okay maybe it isn't Martha, The BRD Trilogy, I Don't Want You To Love Me or Ali: Fear Eats The Soul...But even a so called "so so" Fassbinder film is still a triumph in my mind. I mean the theme in this film could not be more universal and that scene with Fassbinder dancing with Schygulla in the bar...Priceless.
Summary of Rio das Mortes
The films of Rainier Werner Fassbinder take a bit of getting used to. At first, "Rio Das Mortes" will seem wooden and sluggish--but as you grow accustomed to Fassbinder's stylized filmmaking, the movie grows elegant. Hanna (Hanna Schygulla) wants to marry Mike (Michael Konig), but Mike is obsessed about going to Peru with his friend Gunther (Gunther Kaufmann) to engage in a treasure hunt. As the two make clumsy attempts to raise the money for the trip, Hanna at first feels safe (when they try to convince her uncle to invest, their callow ignorance is both comic and painful). But slowly she realizes that Mike's fantasies mean more to him than she does, and her world starts to crumble. Mike and Gunther's flounderings become perversely fascinating as the movie uses them to deftly illustrate the social and economic mechanisms of society; Fassbinder's eye--both harsh and sympathetic--is remarkable. "--Bret Fetzer"Similar DVD Movies
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