Total Therapy (1997)
Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems. Cut off from the rest of the world, the participants are increasingly drawn into the therapy's spell.
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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
The atmosphere oscillates between an acid dream and esoteric delusions, between help and bleak sadism. The whole situation escalates, and we kind of expected it, we wait for it, but are bored at the same time.The director has strong competition from Lars von Trier and similar artists, and he can't really make the final step to make it an extraordinary film.
Certainly one of the best horror thrillers in german speech. A group of people, all suffering by psycho/social problems, are visiting a kind of seminar in a farm in bavaria. But the master of the seminar is like a sect guru and uses very sadistic methods to discourage the people and to break their will. All hell breaks loose when he tries to rape a young female.