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In the Basement
Directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Not Rated
2014
81m
Documentary
6.7
87%
60%
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A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
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Cast of In the Basement
Alessa Duchek
Self
Gerald Duchek
Self
Inge Ellinger
Self
Manfred Ellinger
Self
Walter Holzer
Self
Cora Kitty
Self
Alfreda Klebinger
Self
Fritz Lang
Self
Josef Ochs
Self
Peter Vokurek
Self
Ulrich Seidl
Director / Writer / Producer
Veronika Franz
Writer
In the Basement Ratings & Reviews
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
There's a pleasurable quality to [ director Ulrich] Seidl's direction even when what he's filming is repugnant. As with Haneke, it makes his provocations go down easier.
HeraldNet (Everett, WA)
Robert Horton
We're never quite sure how much the director is ridiculing his subjects, or simply allowing them to be. Either way feels plenty creepy.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
In the Basement is a brisk, bracing, and often very funny film about the seeds of fascism in contemporary Austrian society.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Can his fellow Austrians be as strange, as blunt, as unfathomably cruel as lore and legend hold? ... Ja, in almost every successive gesture, statement, offhanded remark... sexual predilection and, especially, in those memorabilia collections.
Artforum
Nick Pinkerton
Among other things, In the Basement is a musky slog through the fundament of fear and desire in particularly feminine and masculine permutations.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
This often hilarious movie descends into the unseen spaces of Austrian homes - literally and figuratively - and creates a stage for their residents' fantasies of sex, violence and power.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Make of it what you will, this off-the-wall film essay entertains hugely while it makes the audience squirm in their seats.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Grabby and grubby in equal measure, this meticulously composed trawl through the contents of several middle-class Austrians' cellars yields more than a few startling discoveries.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Cinema hasn't been this close to the dusty cogs of desire's machinery, this unapologetic about pleasure, since Pasolini.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Its interest is in private lives, in a single population, in subordinating the look and feel of its subjects to the aesthetic vision of their documenter.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
If precise, clinical dissections of fetishes, freakishness, and folly are your bag (and they're so ours) you'll find a great in "In The Basement" to admire, laugh at, and be oddly moved by, at least after the initial shock has worn off.
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