Im Keller

This frightening and funny documentary plunges headlong into the basements of Austria’s suburbanites, which turn out to be peopled by chubby sex slaves, a tuba-playing collector of Nazi memorabilia and an unusual doll aficionado. Following his Paradies trilogy, Ulrich Seidl returned to the documentary format with this carefully stylized portrait of a number of Austrians and their basements where, according to Seidl, his countrymen were traditionally wont to indulge in their most intimate hobbies. Seidl digs underneath the spotless pavements of Austria”s suburbs to find some weird situations. He cast this portrait in an extremely uncomfortable intimate mould, leaving it up to the viewer to decide to what extent Seidl…