This film is not set in the Middle Earth and its main character is not Andy Serkis with a digital mask. The Incomplete is, rather, the portrait of a 60-year-old man who is presented as a Gollum. Naked and in chains, this bold-headed and relaxed man who says his name is Klaus confesses he is gay and wants to be a slave. Soldat will follow the everyday chores of his character –to cleanup and get naked, to take a shower and chain himself up, to get spanked and do a blowjob. He’ll talk with Klaus about his past and delve into his philosophy. The fact Klaus’ father was a high rank officer and his mother a teacher in Hitler’s times offers a sociological and historical context for his passions. This is a film about Germany, but it doesn’t necessarily suggests a deep violence as the driving force for Klaus’ masochism. There is something delirious about it, and it seems as a staging of power and its structures under the service of a form of pleasure unrelated to sex. This is an intrinsically political film and its final shot, the only close up on this character, shows the ethics behind its aesthetics. RK (FICUNAM catalogue)
Section: PanoramaD, F, E, P, PE: Jan Soldat
S: Jan Soldat, Lorenz Fischer
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05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
