Feuchtgebiete 2013

Critics score:
89 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Sara Stewart, New York Post: Take 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. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Even 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!" Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: Wetlands might have landed with the thud of empty shock value were Helen not such an innately engaging character, or Juri so commanding in the role. Read more

Jenni Miller, AV Club: Wetlands is wonderfully filthy and wildly perverse, occasionally funny, and even a little sad. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Wetlands" tells a fairly conventional story in about the most unconventional ways imaginable. Read more

David Ehrlich, Film.com: A visually playful story of a girl finding herself from the inside out. Read more

Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter: An accessible, stylish and ultimately even sweet film. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Its nastiness sings, instead of stings. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Graphic, occasionally disgusting but sweet-natured and liberated. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: An absurdly simplistic family drama; the movie's apparent audacity isn't even skin deep. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: With her dirty-blond curls and angelic smile, Helen is fully alive in a way that's all too rare on our movie screens. She's not out to shock or sicken; that's your problem, not hers. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: Wetlands is one of the most daring, visually arresting, innovative, and imaginative examples of filmmaking to come out of Europe in recent memory. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Wetlands is here to freak out the prudes and make "dirty" fun again. That it does. You won't find a better movie anywhere that features a teen girl using her crotch to wipe a public toilet seat. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Crass, vulgar, and brilliant. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Dank with the effluvia of a proudly unhygienic, sex-obsessed German teen, this frenetic adaptation of Charlotte Roche's notorious 2008 best-seller is a standing dare to anyone who thinks the movies have gotten too tame. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: A captivating go-for-broke lead turn by Juri lends the film a poignancy to help offset the juvenile shock-tactic impulses. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Women deserve their own gross-out movies, and, in Wetlands, the punk force is strong. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It isn't terribly clear where the movie - or its hedonistic heroine - is going, but getting there is one wild ride. Read more