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Wetlands(Feuchtgebiete)

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Germany · 2013
1h 49m
Director David Wnendt
Starring Carla Juri, Axel Milberg, Meret Becker, Peri Baumeister
Genre Drama, Comedy

Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...

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CineVue by

Wetlands can be an unusually intriguing, funny and entertaining visual experience.

80

The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

What makes the film so accessible despite its controversial subject matter is Wnendt’s total command of tone, which is never vulgar or intentionally out to shock.

75

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

For its general ludic obsession with all things generally thought of as disgusting, the German film Wetlands is stuck in the anal stage.

60

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Dank with the effluvia of a proudly unhygienic, sex-obsessed German teen, this frenetic adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s notorious 2008 best-seller is a standing dare to anyone who thinks the movies have gotten too tame.

70

Village Voice by Nick Schager

Helen's extreme behavior is at once a reaction to, and rebellion against, her mother and father (and their separation), which, along with a captivating go-for-broke lead turn by Juri, lends the film a poignancy to help offset the juvenile shock-tactic impulses.

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New York Post by Sara Stewart

Take note, Lars von Trier: This is how you do a truly funny, subversive movie about a woman’s obsession with the human body and sex.

70

Variety by Scott Foundas

Wetlands might have landed with the thud of empty shock value were Helen not such an innately engaging character, or Juri so commanding in the role.

70

The Dissolve by Scott Tobias

German director David Wnendt and his co-writer, Claus Falkenberg, are determined to package one teenager’s unhygienic coming-of-age into a slick, funny, accessible romantic comedy. They mostly pull it off.

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