Rate: A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
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A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 28
Released: 1972-01-01
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Studios: UCLA School of Film and Television,
Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest’s elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie’s arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels. —Jan-Christopher Horak
