{"id":18797,"date":"2026-07-19T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:28:27","slug":"chinese-roulette-1976-rainer-fassbinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18797","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Roulette (1976, Rainer Fassbinder)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mom (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14993\">Petra von Kant<\/a>) and Dad (Alex Allerson of all the &#8217;76 Fassbinders) are leaving town on separate business trips, leaving their daughter with the mute nurse (Godard&#8217;s <em>Married Woman<\/em>).  But all three adults are having secret affairs, and head to the same country house, where they try to play it off and have a good time together since they&#8217;re all equally busted.  Dad is with hottie Anna Karina, mom is with dad&#8217;s employee <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10049\">Bruno<\/a>, the nanny is with blonde Volker Spengler (fly guy of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18745\">Satan&#8217;s Brew<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/roulette1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/roulette2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is too many major actors in one place, and the daughter can&#8217;t hold her own, also is weirdly dubbed, but she gets to dance on her crutches to Kraftwerk&#8217;s &#8220;Radioactivity.&#8221;  Of course the adults end up playing mind games, and the vibes turn very sour during the titular Q&#038;A guessing game, then Mom shoots the Mute Nurse, kind of a bum ending.<\/p>\n<p><em>honi soit qui mal y pense:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/roulette3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom (Petra von Kant) and Dad (Alex Allerson of all the &#8217;76 Fassbinders) are leaving town on separate business trips, leaving their daughter with the mute nurse (Godard&#8217;s Married Woman). But all three adults are having secret affairs, and head to the same country house, where they try to play it off and have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,122,1609],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-germany","tag-rainer-fassbinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18827,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions\/18827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}