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BOURGEOISE TERRORISTS

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Rainer Werner Fassbinder's

Die Dritte Generation / The Third Generation (1978)

The joke here is that third generation of lefty terrorists (modelled on the Bader Manhoff gang) are a bunch of upper middle class dunderheads. They are experts on the clusterfuck.

One of them is the son of the chief police investigator and lives at home.

The plot is sort of tortured. But there are the usual fascinating Fassbinder sidebars which amuse. But not enough.

I didn't like it but I didn't turn it off or skip ahead. That makes it a 2 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films