Nekromantik is a beautiful movie in its own right.
It focuses on love, heartache, and despair... Oh yeah, and there's the whole corpse thing, too. That's always fun.
The plot involves a young man who cleans up dead bodies. He occasionally sneaks a small body part home and saves them in labeled jars, much to the odd sexual excitement of his girlfriend. Then, one day, he hits the mother lode. He finds a full body and, with no one around, he manages to get it back to his place without arousing suspicion.
The girlfriend, of course, is thrilled - and much graphic sexplay occurs between the three of them. It isn't until the young man begins to realize that his girlfriend would rather spend her time with the corpse that he starts questioning the sanity of the situation.
The idea behind the film is repellent to most, but that doesn't mean the movie is not still a fine piece of experimental art. It takes feelings we all have, and places them in a very unreal environment. We question the sanity of the film's characters, but find strange similarities between ourselves and them.
Those with an open mind should see this notorious piece of German underground film-making. Its well-worth the search.
It focuses on love, heartache, and despair... Oh yeah, and there's the whole corpse thing, too. That's always fun.
The plot involves a young man who cleans up dead bodies. He occasionally sneaks a small body part home and saves them in labeled jars, much to the odd sexual excitement of his girlfriend. Then, one day, he hits the mother lode. He finds a full body and, with no one around, he manages to get it back to his place without arousing suspicion.
The girlfriend, of course, is thrilled - and much graphic sexplay occurs between the three of them. It isn't until the young man begins to realize that his girlfriend would rather spend her time with the corpse that he starts questioning the sanity of the situation.
The idea behind the film is repellent to most, but that doesn't mean the movie is not still a fine piece of experimental art. It takes feelings we all have, and places them in a very unreal environment. We question the sanity of the film's characters, but find strange similarities between ourselves and them.
Those with an open mind should see this notorious piece of German underground film-making. Its well-worth the search.