Metrograph

Fassbinder gives us the weekend getaway from hell in this suffocating chamber drama, in which unhappily and unfaithfully married couple Gerhard and Ariane Christ (Alexander Allerson and Margit Carstensen), intending to escape one another and their bitter disabled daughter, Angela (Andrea Schober), wind up in a family reunion, with lovers Anna Karina and Ulli Lommel in tow, at their country manse, where a vengeful Angela maneuvers the assembled parties into a round of the eponymous guessing game, designed to sow dissension and inflict maximum psychological torment. “More original and daring than anything I’ve yet to see by filmmakers who call themselves avant-garde… A mysterious comedy of deliberate elegance… Camp lyricism of such density it becomes a lethal weapon.” —The New York Times

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