Wicked Games

In Rimini 2022 and Sparta 2022 Ulrich Seidl followed the lives of two brothers Richie and Ewald respectively The former is a crooner long past his prime yet still beloved by hordes of latemiddleaged female fans who can also buy his sexual attention the latter is a technician living in Romania and wrestling with his pedophile desires These two tales were supposed to be told in one film and now they finally are The result offers a staggeringly different experience of the narratives Its far more cerebral above all a work of ideas