Peacock

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Peacock

Sep 2025

1h 42m

Drama

Comedy

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At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available -- for a reasonable fee -- to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', or even 'pilot dad' to impress your classmates at Bring Your Parent to School Day. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows deeper into his fictitious lives. Bernhard Wenger's PEACOCK is a biting and hilarious social satire about the masks we wear in the pursuit of human connection.

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Kat Sachs

Chicago Reader

Oct 14

A genuine sense of anxiety, more pronounced than that of Östlund’s films, pervades the story, delivering a stronger message as a result.

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

Sep 19

Watching Matthias on the job is entertaining enough, even as the movie’s allegorical ambitions are stymied by a narrative inertia, and by a sneaking suspicion that we’ve seen this sort of social commentary before.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

09/01/2024

Wenger’s script is a sly, finely balanced thing, pointedly and often hilariously poking fun at corporate and capitalistic ideals of self-improvement and social coordination, without ridiculing the individuals who feel beholden to those standards.

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Ricardo Gallegos

La Estatuilla

Oct 22

Putting together this existential comic puzzle is the always brilliant Albrecht Schuch , who navigates all these roles in a funny and enigmatic way, but also with a touch of pathos and sweetness. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Sep 19

... lends conviction to its premise while also embracing the absurdity, offering a winning balance of dark laughs and sobering subtext.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Sep 15

A provocative, funny and profoundly moving satire. A smart, biting and outrageously funny study of human nature..

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Robert S

Oct 30

This little film sneaks up on you, and goes places you will not predict. It's simply great, original, and over-the-top funny. Brace yourself for a delightful ride. In German with subtitles, and some English dialogue.

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Mark G

Oct 22

This was an incredible film. If Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman made a film together, it would probably be this. Beautifully shot, brilliantly acted, and never lazy in its humor. It stuck the landing in the same sort of way as “There Will Be Blood” and “The Swimmer.” My choice for best picture.

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Liina H

Sep 20

A great social criticism film. We are losing ourselves in this society and it was funny too. I recommend everyone to watch.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Sep 19

Success in 1 hour and 42 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All ages admitted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available -- for a reasonable fee -- to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', or even 'pilot dad' to impress your classmates at Bring Your Parent to School Day. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows deeper into his fictitious lives. Bernhard Wenger's PEACOCK is a biting and hilarious social satire about the masks we wear in the pursuit of human connection.

Director: Bernhard Wenger
Producer: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser
Screenwriter: Bernhard Wenger, Bernhard Wenger
Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Production Co: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, CALA Filmproduktion
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 42m

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