
The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates the story of her life, including stories about her preferred sexual practices that involve vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene, drugs, her best friend Corinna and her challenging childhood. The frame story takes place in a hospital where she is treated because of an anal fissure. During her stay she plans to reunite her divorced parents and falls in love with the male nurse Robin.... (Full plot summary below)
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The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates the story of her life, including stories about her preferred sexual practices that involve vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene, drugs, her best friend Corinna and her challenging childhood. The frame story takes place in a hospital where she is treated because of an anal fissure. During her stay she plans to reunite her divorced parents and falls in love with the male nurse Robin.
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| New York PostSara StewartTake note, Lars von Trier: This is how you do a truly funny, subversive movie about a woman’s obsession with the human body and sex. |
| Columbus AliveBrad KeefeSo joyfully perverse, its shocks sometimes seem almost playful, which is refreshing as Helen works out her kinks by celebrating them. |
| Moveable FestStephen SaitoIn spite of an early disclaimer that states "This book shouldn't be read or adapted to film," taken from a letter to the editor from Bild Online, you're glad Wnendt and company went ahead and did it anyway. |
| indieWireEric KohnThe shock value only goes so far as a gimmick. Wetlands succeeds because, like Helen, it manages to sincerely embrace its taboos. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe tone is breezy, bright and brash, vividly illuminated by Ms. Juri’s extraordinarily unprotected and utterly fearless performance. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniWetlands is one of the most daring, visually arresting, innovative, and imaginative examples of filmmaking to come out of Europe in recent memory. |
| Film Comment MagazineNicolas RapoldThe film's gleeful defying of taboos would not succeed without Juri in the starring role. |
| ScreenAnarchyJ HurtadoWetlands is dirty, explicit, romantic, tragic, psychedelic, raunchy, sexy, repulsive fun, and I loved every minute of it. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFloridly explicit, gleefully disgusting and yet somehow kind of sweet, the film is a showcase for Carla Juri. |
| TIME MagazineRichard CorlissEven if Wetlands were far less entertaining, it would still be a calling card for Juri's star-is-born performance. The beguiled viewer watches her and thinks, "Bingo!" |