Wetlands

Name: Wetlands
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 5, 2014
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse, Meret Becker

2014

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 5, 2014 | Not Rated

Starring: Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse, Meret Becker

Summary: Eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents divorce, she spends her time experimenting and breaking one social taboo after the other with her best friend, Corinna (Marlen Kruse). When a shaving accident lands her inEighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents divorce, she spends her time experimenting and breaking one social taboo after the other with her best friend, Corinna (Marlen Kruse). When a shaving accident lands her in the hospital, she sees it as a way to reconcile her parents and forms an unlikely bond with her male nurse, Robin (Christoph Letkowski). [Strand Releasing]… Expand

Director: David Wnendt

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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David Lewis

Sep 18, 2014

Wetlands, an in-your-face story about bodily fluids and the collateral damage of a family gone wrong, is crass, vulgar and brilliant. Read full review

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Sara Stewart

Sep 3, 2014

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. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 4, 2014

The tone is breezy, bright and brash, vividly illuminated by Ms. Juri’s extraordinarily unprotected and utterly fearless performance. Read full review

Peter Travers

Sep 4, 2014

This no-bull spellbinder is allergic to sentiment. Unlike porn, Wetlands keeps its humanity intact. And if Oscar didn't have a stick up his ass, Juri would be a nominee for Best Actress. Yup, she's that good. Your move. Read full review

David Edelstein

Sep 5, 2014

Women deserve their own gross-out movies, and, in Wetlands, the punk force is strong. If your taste runs thataway, you should see it in a theater with one eye on the audience — and hope that a few people will think they’re going to see a documentary about threatened ecosystems. Talk about all wet! Read full review

Scott Tobias

Sep 1, 2014

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. Read full review

Massimo Benvegnù

Sep 3, 2014

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

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LamontRaymond

Sep 19, 2014

Absolutely one of the grossest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen, but the lead actress is so delightful, you can't help but love the finished product. The score and soundtrack are pitch-perfect, the art direction is amazing, and the pacing is excellent. It's a tough movie toAbsolutely one of the grossest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen, but the lead actress is so delightful, you can't help but love the finished product. The score and soundtrack are pitch-perfect, the art direction is amazing, and the pacing is excellent. It's a tough movie to recommend because it's even more over-the-top than the critics suggest - but if you're the type of person who needs to try a little of everything, you can't miss this.… Expand

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JeBjBo

May 9, 2022

I have to admit I did not expect this film to gross me out that much in certain scenes. Besides that, "Wetlands" is a surprisingly funny romantic comedy. (Don't watch it with your parents, please!)

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LeZee

May 17, 2015

The reason I watched it was the director. 'Combat Girls' was a very good movie and I expected a similar result from this. But it was a totally different entertainer, so original and I was hooked throughout. It was based on the novel of the same name, a well received book and even it wasThe reason I watched it was the director. 'Combat Girls' was a very good movie and I expected a similar result from this. But it was a totally different entertainer, so original and I was hooked throughout. It was based on the novel of the same name, a well received book and even it was translated to English later. But had some debate over saying it was an erotic related topic.

Whatever, I don't know the book, because I'm kind of a movie guy, so saw it and liked it. I did not find anything like the book was criticised. You're going to create your own visuals while reading a book, but in a motion picture it gives perfect everything, including background score, which is a plus point. For that, the book must land to a creative mind, the director with vision who can convince others with his exhibition.

We find the little kids around us in our daily life who never listen to their parents or anyone and do exactly the opposite to what they were told. Like an adamant character, even in some adults as well, which might developed during their childhood due to raised in a dysfunctional family or other similar circumstances of life they were brought in. This film revolves in a similar manner, but a bit ahead until you to get sick and say 'ew'.

It's better to have a scratched knee now,
than to have a broken heart later on.

It was so disgusting and disgusting even more, in one word to say the grossest movie ever, perhaps among the top three or five or ten for sure. Whatever the possible way to make it happen, they used it to bring the outcome. If you ask me, I would say thank god I'm a man and it was the portrayal of a girl. The actress was pretty enough for anyone not to feel (that) bad for what you're going to witness, I call it an advantage for such a theme. Suppose it was an actor, I would have definitely turned it off in midway and said the F word.

A tale of an 18-year-old girl Helen, who explains why she's so antithesis by recalling her childhood memories. By the second half of her teen life, overtaken by sex fantasies, but that was not the whole movie. These all were to develop the character which took almost full movie leaving current scenario which takes place in the hospital tight and squeezed. Her relationship as individual with her family members a vital phase in the storytelling, which tells she never understood none of the three. Her father, a careless with sexual active man. Her mother brainwashes with over lessons and with her little brother, they never really had proper bro-sis thingy. By the last quarter of the film you will completely know the Helen and time to change your mind, possibly. But still disturbs us her adaptation of the theory of everything.

There are many movies where children are affected like Helen, but this film was absolutely a unique in the illustration of the sensitive topic. It's a debatable if parents take the film seriously, because it talk about parenting failure as well unhygienic thingy. Bit of fun, emetic, sexy, overall an exceptional movie for adults. Disgusting is a disgusting, if there is no problem accepting a change and variety in a movie that you usually watch and appreciate the effort, then this film could be a better entertainer. It should dub in English rather remake it if there is a consideration. I usually like German movies, because I'm picky, I choose wisely after a basic research. I knew it would be a commercial feature and I was prepared to enjoy it like that way.

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ToffelQ

Sep 10, 2014

I liked it and found the main character intriguing. I guess I feel the need of this point of view in films are more worthy of praise than anything that actually happens in it though. A strong 2 out of 5 with bonus kudos for originality of perspective.

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JLuis_001

Sep 7, 2017

Striking and well done, a simple theme but not open to any public, it is very clear that this is a European film, a huge point in its favor is that it is not puritan and does not get entangled, together with that also gets more attention by the great work of its protagonist.
Wetlands is aStriking and well done, a simple theme but not open to any public, it is very clear that this is a European film, a huge point in its favor is that it is not puritan and does not get entangled, together with that also gets more attention by the great work of its protagonist.
Wetlands is a film with an unusual theme, but it should not be rejected.… Expand

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LowbrowCinema

Sep 13, 2014

Wonderfully directed and anchored by a pretty brilliant performance from Carla Juri, WETLANDS becomes the bourgeois reactionary film it so desperately doesn't want to be. The first 45 minutes is truly contemporary and almost mind blowing with its depiction of a young woman bent onWonderfully directed and anchored by a pretty brilliant performance from Carla Juri, WETLANDS becomes the bourgeois reactionary film it so desperately doesn't want to be. The first 45 minutes is truly contemporary and almost mind blowing with its depiction of a young woman bent on celebrating her bodily functions. But then a whole mama/papa back story sets in complete with divorce and attempted suicide. The film suddenly declares, "that's why she is that way!" And they even give her a pretty boy love interest. For shame. Man up and have some guts folks.… Expand

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