Fresh
"Wetlands" tells a fairly conventional story in about the most unconventional ways imaginable.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
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Wetlands
Overview
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...
Director and cast
- David Wnendt Director
- Carla Juri as Helen Memel
- Axel Milberg as Helen's Father
- Meret Becker as Helen's Mother
- Peri Baumeister as Valerie
- Christoph Letkowski as Robin
- Edgar Selge as Dr. Notz
- Marlen Kruse as Corinna
- Clara Wunsch as Helen (8 years)
- Ludger Bökelmann as Toni
- Bernardo Arias Porras as Michael
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Even if Wetlands were far less entertaining, it would still be a calling card for Juri's star-is-born performance. The beguiled viewer watches her and thinks, "Bingo!"
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Rotten
An absurdly simplistic family drama; the movie's apparent audacity isn't even skin deep.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh
Crass, vulgar, and brilliant.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Wetlands is one of the most daring, visually arresting, innovative, and imaginative examples of filmmaking to come out of Europe in recent memory.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
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