美丽纯洁的川浪良子(山口百惠 饰)是从北海道来至东京谋生的芭蕾舞演员,但为了照顾年迈多病的母亲,她不得不放弃钟爱的芭蕾,转而在一家低级夜总会跳舞赚钱。某个夜晚,她邂逅同样来自老家的年轻男子北村明夫(三浦友和 饰)。两个在大都会闯荡且满身伤痕的人儿惺惺相惜,于是相约次日一同离开东京,回到北海道展开新的生活。此前明夫曾被黑心商人江藤(高橋昌也 饰)赖掉1000万日元款项,他偷偷潜入江藤的办公室把钱偷回。在良子的劝说下,明夫决定将钱送回,以清白之身离开东京。然而,两人却因此卷入一起杀人事件之中……
本片根据William Irish的原作改编,为“红色系列”的最后一部(共10部),也是山口百惠告别舞台的纪念之作。。1970年是法斯賓達的電影人生中最多產的一年,單是劇情長片便拍了不下六部風格、類型、題材等皆各異的作品,而黑色喜劇《小心聖妓》便是其一。但對影迷來說,也許更重要的是此片乃法斯賓達自認最好的個人作品。雖然影片的名字像極與妓女有關,不過故事內容卻是另一回事。它主要講述一群苦候拍攝電影的人,因導演失蹤、器材不見,唯有在冠冕堂皇的西班牙酒店內有如行屍走肉四處飄浮,直至導演出現,大家才抖擻精神。怎料導演忙於拍攝之餘,更要落力應付各方滋事份子,令他疲於奔命,最後他還要面對巨大的財政壓力,而各位演員也開始鼓譟起來...此片無疑可說是導演的個人寫照,透過自嘲、黑色幽默等手法諷刺片場如地獄,不過更值得注意的是此片的混雜風格,既承接他早期的劇場化敘事,亦開其日後的通俗劇形式,可說是法斯賓達電影創作上的重要過渡作品。
1970 was the most prolific year for Fassbinder, he made six features of different style, genre and theme, and Beware of a Holy Whore was the director's personal favourite. Despite its title the film has absolute nothing to do with prostitution. With the director and equipment missing, a group of actors and crew can do nothing but to wait aimlessly inside a posh Spanish hotel. The director finally appears, but he is soon entangled with the trouble makers on the set and pressure from his financers| not before long, the actors are starting to get riotous…A black comedy and a satire of the movie set being "hell", a self-mockery on the perils of being a director. An important work where Fassbinder was making a transition from his early Brechtian style to more conventional narrative.
Source: 世界電影經典回顧 2006 節目二 - 德國電影新浪潮。7 "Hell" 8 March 19968 "Think Fast, Father Ted" 15 March 19969 "Tentacles of Doom" 22 March 199610 "Old Grey Whistle Theft" 29 March 199611 "A Song for Europe" 5 April 199612 ...。