![]() ![]() Whatever the case, those who meet Helen don't forget her. Her actions are extreme, perhaps, because she knows it's probably a lost cause. Just trust me.īut what is really going on is a girl trying to keep her life, and her family, together. Sure, Wnendt goes for shock value at times, like when … forget it. But the movie, despite everything it shows (which is pretty much everything) is not. Is it pornography? Couldn't tell you, as I have not read the book. ![]() The animated, insanely creative and weirdly beautiful dive into the interior of a pubic hair stuck in a urine stain on a public toilet is just a bonus.ĭirector David Wnendt's film is based on the novel by Charlotte Roche, which was something of a sensation in Germany. Who beneath all that just wants her mom and dad to get back together. The movie begins with a scene in a disgusting public restroom, its pivotal act an intimate shaving accident that results in an infected anal fissure, and throughout we are witness to Helen's obsession with bodily fluids and functions, most of them sexual.īut if you're game, you'll find a visually inventive movie that is at its heart the story of a girl brokenhearted over her parents' divorce, who, beneath the promiscuity and exhibitionism and drug use and … you get the idea. She plays Helen, an 18-year-old girl who has long suffered from hemorrhoids that she gives frequent … attention, and if that sounds bizarre and off-putting, seriously, you have no idea. "Wetlands" tells a fairly conventional story in about the most unconventional ways imaginable.įloridly explicit, gleefully disgusting and yet somehow kind of sweet, the film is a showcase for Carla Juri. ![]()
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