Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s only Western is slow, studied and gorgeously stylized, set in the late 1870s, and about a vicious, dysfunctional family headed by a wealthy rancher and including his hyena of a second, much younger wife, two sons, one a fag-hag and the other retarded, and two servants, a mother (played by a white […]
Daily Archives: February 3, 2008
Barthelémy, now a French citizen, has returned to Senegal for his father’s funeral. Pierre Henri Thioune, “Guelwaar” (meaning, Noble One), was a district leader whose especial cause was foreign aid, which he inveighed against for costing people dignity. Senegal won its independence from France in 1960, but assistance since then has kept Senegal dependent on […]
Dennis Grunes 