Sunday 6 June
15.00
Chinese Roulette
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany/France 1976, 86')

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Chinese Roulette  1976 © Fassbinder Foundation

A girl, a gun, and a game, disorientingly shot from underneath a glass chessboard. That image sums up Chinese Roulette, Fassbinder's hypnotically stylish, droll and puzzling Gothic thriller.

In a sprawling chateau, industrial magnate Gerhard Christ and his wife come to terms with their respective infidelities. Their disabled daughter Angela shows up – with her mute governess and a small army of grotesque dolls – and tries to play her parents and their lovers off each other, culminating in a psychologically vicious truth game called Chinese Roulette. Diabolically involving, and one of Fassbinder’s most controversial films, many consider it a masterpiece.

Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

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