The Last Real Men (1994) User Reviews

Humorous - compared with the other films by Ulich Seidl

[richard-posch · 9/10 · 6 November 2007]

Seidl manages to capture the bleak normality to be found in the lives of many Austrian divorced single males. The way the film is formally constructed (instant meal poured into an overheated saucepan before each relationship portrait) makes is more amusing to watch, than most of Seidl's other works. Fortunately I do know Austrian-Asian relationships, that do work out well - particularly the Austrians concerned will have to accept the Asian woman, be she from Thailand or the Philippines, as an intelligent unique human being with her own feelings and not as a personal slave. To be optimistic about Austrian males, I would say that Ulrich Seidl has made a rather one-sided choice of them for his undoubtedly humorous documentation, which is well worth watching.