The real star of Mutzenbacher, an austere Austrian documentary screening in the Encounters strand at the Berlin Film Festival, is a gaudy but once elegant settee that has seen better days, and like…
, is a gaudy but once elegant settee that has seen better days, and likely even service in a 1970s pornographic movie . Fittingly, it is literally a casting couch for director
, a scandalous book published anonymously in the early 1900s, purportedly penned by Felix Salten, the author of. What they don’t know is that there is no film, just pages of explicit content from the book that Beckermann will be using as a device with which to explore their most intimate thoughts and their attitudes towards sex and sexuality.
At first glance, there is something a little unkind about Beckermann’s film in the way she whittles down her subjects. Very early on, one of the more professional actors voices his concerns about the material but is clearly conflicted about losing the job.
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