Monday 11 January 2010

120 Days of Bottrop (1997, Christoph Schlingensief)


With the inspired premise of a director attempting to remake Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom (the most extreme film ever made), I was expecting something entirely demented. This film however, while only being 60 minutes long still manages to be dull. It is utterly incoherent and more non-sensical than David Lynch at his most pretentious and just seems like a bunch of people messing about. It’s weird and very random but with no humour, no interesting visual elements and surprisingly features nothing more extreme than a bit of nudity. In fact the only time I was shocked was when Independence Day was mentioned (with Roland Emmerich appearing briefly as himself) and I realized the film was about 20 years younger than I had guessed. Maybe something was lost in translation. Features Udo Kier. Bottrop btw is a town in Germany.
1/5

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