A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a secret mens' club. All the other wives seem strangely conservative and shallow. Sounds familiar? Yeah, this is basically a thinly veiled take on the Stepford Wives, just without any bit of humor or atmosphere, but instead filled with the sterile, unflinching and dry seriousness that makes watching a lot of our German films such a drag and a miserable experience. Filled with lots of ultra clear, cold shots of crappy neo- Bauhaus architecture... Some scenes were actually quite good (borrowing sometimes in style from Lynch, sometimes from Antonioni, but trying to emulate master filmmakers doesn't make you one), and like the source material it is still a good condemnation of posh suburbia and old boys clubs. But, no, I think I just could endure it because I'm used to even worse stuff on TV here...
4.5/10
4.5/10