Red Sun (1970)
10/10
... all the way through an odd film but dripping with Cool ...
29 December 2021
A dropout playboy waster Marquard Bohm reunites in Munich with a friend he knew in Hamburg Uschi Obermaier ; but she is now a member of a sort of Feminist Red Army Faction type outfit

But at first he does not cotton on it seems

This is a very moody piece imbued with the times when the Left in Germany grew teeth as they realized that marches and speeches and asking nicely for a more egalitarian world was getting them nowhere; add to that the rise of steely feminism (think Valerie Solanas S. C. U. M. kinda vibe); all this need be understood to grasp the mood and direction and the minds of the protagonists and intent of the director in Red Sun ....

The four women are all exceedingly beautiful Mara temptresses; the words femme fatale are the ones they would need to enter on their collective CV

Marquard Bohm has the face and demeanour of a degenerate; I have recently seen 2 other films with him from that time and this can be also said there; and he does it really well; acted or not 🙂🙃😉

The final scenes are really poignant and probably say something deep about the Masculine and the Feminine .... or not :...

If you are a fan of 60/70s Gegenkultur definitely drop in ...
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