Though the genre-blasting Whity sees Fassbinder toying with classic western conventions and trying to subvert distinctly American forms of racism, the moral catastrophes the director exposes are nonetheless played for a world-weary pathos and unive

Fassbinder's provocative 1970 meditation on race and class.

Fassbinder's lone western.

Whity is a great film, and deserves to be counted among Fassbinder's best.