Taxi Zum Klo (Ripploh, 1981): BFI Southbank NFT3, 8.50pm
This film is part of the 'Scala: Sex, drugs and rock and roll cinema' season at BFI Southbank. The movie also screens on January 8th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Frank Ripploh’s funny and well-made autobiographical German feature
(1980), about the wild nights and gray days of a gay schoolteacher in
Berlin. Ripploh, with his hangdog face and slinging gait, is a very
appealing performer, and the film floats on his charm and happy sexual
voraciousness. Fantasy elements (Ripploh is never rejected) combine with
documentary asides on the texture of gay life to make up an
entertainingly varied series of anecdotes. The hard-core footage,
shocking at first, performs the salutary function of demystifying gay
sex for a straight audience, and the central theme—monogamy versus
promiscuity—is certainly a universal one. The film is limited by its
creeping misogyny and willful superficiality, yet its sheer freedom from
guilt is infectious and uplifting.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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