In this short named after the cocktail ordered at the hotel bar in Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971), a singer serenades a small crowd in a moody nightclub who all look the part of Fassbinder characters—if not of Fassbinder himself. Serra pays homage not by mimicking Fassbinder’s style but rather by alchemically conjuring the people, places, and modes of p...