This is a difficult film to describe, no less rate. I'll note up front for those viewers that have concerns on these matters, there's plenty of nudity here, as well as a number of explicit sex scenes, some of which involve S&M and voyeurism.
Vicky Krieps gives a solid performance here, as Lynn, a strange and depressive young woman working as a chambermaid at a local hotel. She's been in a mental health facility in the past, remains in therapy, and clearly has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Aside from having sex with her boss (Steffen Munster) at the hotel, her real thrills come from hiding under the beds of some guests and spying on their activities. One day, she overhears a conversation, in the hotel lobby, between a call girl and a man who are about to rent a room, and finds out the room number. She races upstairs ahead of them and hides under the bed.
The call girl, Chiara, ably portrayed by Lena Lauzemis, turns out to specialize as a dominatrix, and Lynn is turned on by the session, and copies down Chiara's phone number. Lynn ends up calling her and scheduling a house call with Chiara and sets up a meeting.
What will develop between the two though will be a bonding and eventually even a friendship (OK-so it's not on the scale of "Pretty Woman"). However, we will see Lynn slowly coming out of her "shell" to some extent, even trying to get closer to her emotionally distant mother.
This movie, written and directed by Ingo Haeb, is definitely geared to a thin slice of filmgoers. If you are not turned off by the graphic sexual and fetishistic elements, you may find some of the other elements here of creepiness, eroticism, and even some dark humor to be to your liking, but be prepared for a very strange ride.
Vicky Krieps gives a solid performance here, as Lynn, a strange and depressive young woman working as a chambermaid at a local hotel. She's been in a mental health facility in the past, remains in therapy, and clearly has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Aside from having sex with her boss (Steffen Munster) at the hotel, her real thrills come from hiding under the beds of some guests and spying on their activities. One day, she overhears a conversation, in the hotel lobby, between a call girl and a man who are about to rent a room, and finds out the room number. She races upstairs ahead of them and hides under the bed.
The call girl, Chiara, ably portrayed by Lena Lauzemis, turns out to specialize as a dominatrix, and Lynn is turned on by the session, and copies down Chiara's phone number. Lynn ends up calling her and scheduling a house call with Chiara and sets up a meeting.
What will develop between the two though will be a bonding and eventually even a friendship (OK-so it's not on the scale of "Pretty Woman"). However, we will see Lynn slowly coming out of her "shell" to some extent, even trying to get closer to her emotionally distant mother.
This movie, written and directed by Ingo Haeb, is definitely geared to a thin slice of filmgoers. If you are not turned off by the graphic sexual and fetishistic elements, you may find some of the other elements here of creepiness, eroticism, and even some dark humor to be to your liking, but be prepared for a very strange ride.