It is now nearly 20 years since this film was first released· It is a still a wonderful film and has withstood the test of time· Yet it surprises me that it is a relatively unknown film·
I knew little of Fögi Is A Bastard prior to the time of my viewing· At first I thought that it was just going to be another teenage groupie movie marketed with a gayteen twist· Or a film about the horrors of addiction to recreational drugs· Or perhaps of teenage angst due to unrequited love·
Some reviewers have called it a love story, a romance· I do not see how it could be either, at least not in any classic sense·
Quite simply, this is a tragedy· Like classical tragedy, Beni and Fögi, each with their personal faults and demons, play their roles in life's drama to their inevitable disaster.