A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

0h 17m 1972 Fantasy United States of America
Budget: - Revenue: -

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