A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan (1972)
17mJanuary 1, 1972
Jamaa Fanaka
Director
Jamaa Fanaka
Writer
Rate
Diary
Overview
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
