Ecstasy (2017)

A journey in a heated and paranoid America with a man in search of a lost love, a woman lost in desire for revenge and a twenty-year-old diary about the yearning to waste oneself in destruction.

Director:

Rolf Peter Kahl (as RP Kahl)

Writers:

Rolf Peter Kahl (as RP Kahl), Torsten Neumann

Stars:

Rolf Peter Kahl, Deborah Kara Unger, Ava Verne

13 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Rolf Peter Kahl	...	Frank Patrick (as RP Kahl)
Deborah Kara Unger	...	Liz Archer
Ava Verne	...	Nina
Lena Morris	...	Marie / Marie's Double
Buddy Giovinazzo	...	Radio presenter (voice)
Joel Cairo	...	Richard Neiner
Karim Cherif	...	Skid (voice)

Storyline

August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. He sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie. On his way he meets Liz, the literary agent and Nina, a sex worker who services her clients in elaborate scenarios and films the encounters. Nina feels attracted to Frank in a strange way. He starts to work for her as a cameraman. She sometimes performs with another young woman who very much resembles Marie, prompting even more tedious fugue-state philosophizing.

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Plot Keywords:

desert | sex scene | unsimulated sex | erect penis | unsimulated fellatio | 

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Taglines:

Love is immortal. Seduction is inevitable. Revenge is irresistible.

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Genres:

Romance | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

A Thought of Ecstasy was part of a theatre performance at Berlin based art space Ballhaus Berlin.

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Goofs

When Frank reads Ross Sinclair's book in the car you can recognize the text inside as "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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Quotes

Frank Patrick: Never realized, that I was always searching for her. Like now. A stranger in a strange country. A stranger in my own story.

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Connections

References In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

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Soundtracks

Shoulders
Written by Anstam
Performed by Anstam

User Reviews

A movie desperately in need of a plot

Usually I start my reviews with a brief summary of the plot. In this case that's not possible, as the movie has no plot. As near as I can discern it's about a German man who is travelling across the US. The remainder seems to consist of random interludes.

Lacking a plot is a distinct drawback in terms of viewer engagement, and you can count me as one of the unengaged.

This movie is random, pointless, pretentious nonsense, basically.

Details

Country:

Germany USA Switzerland

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 January 2018 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Ecstasy

Filming Locations:

USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Erdbeermund Filmproduktion, Independent Partners, Felix Mater Society

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1