Mutzenbacher
Pointing the Moral Index Finger: Ruth Beckermann on Mutzenbacher
By Darren Hughes | 03/21/2022 | CS90, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Interviews
Mutzenbacher, her twelfth feature and winner of the Best Film prize in the Encounters program at the 2022 Berlinale, is an unabashed provocation that dusts off a notorious, century-old pornographic text to interrogate masculinity and the strange, hand-wringing Puritanism of our modern age. As with all subjects that fall under her gaze, Beckermann observes sex, shame, desire, fear, fantasies, and transgression with a concentrated stare and a wry smile.
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