Film
A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
1972Directed by Jamaa Fanaka
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- Released
- Runtime
- 17m
About A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
- Fantasy
Synopsis
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
- Director
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Writer
- Jamaa Fanaka
