Mutzenbacher

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Mutzenbacher

2022

1h 40m

Documentary

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With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, MUTZENBACHER, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, "Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore", in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

09/25/2023

3/5

Beckermann could have been a little more transparent with us about her working practices, but her anatomy of male fantasy is candid and apt.

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Charles Bramesco

Little White Lies

10/05/2022

In reciting Salter’s bluest prose under the discomfiting gaze of the camera, the participants experience every feeling on the spectrum, united only in the strength of their reactions.

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

02/22/2022

Unpeels ever deeper and often darker male sexual secrets and admissions like a Russian doll.

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Damon Wise

Deadline Hollywood Daily

09/16/2023

Beckermann’s steel-willed commitment to staying out of the way is commendable, but it does leave rather a lot to the viewer. Nevertheless, it’s a noble effort to confront a thorny subject.

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Lawrence Garcia

In Review Online

10/06/2022

Beckermann’s conception is certainly pedagogical and didactic, but hers is a pedagogy and didacticism geared toward excavating the gap between the film’s subjects and the original text

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Alex Heeney

Seventh Row

04/30/2022

There is something worthwhile about seeing men openly discussing a taboo subject because of how it inevitably brings out fervent (and problematic) views that they wouldnt normally feel comfortable sharing.

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With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, MUTZENBACHER, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, "Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore", in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.

Director: Ruth Beckermann
Producer: Ruth Beckermann
Screenwriter: Ruth Beckermann, Claus Philipp
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: German
Runtime: 1h 40m