A waste of 90 minutes of my life

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

i had the honor of seeing this well made and tense drama; set against a backdrop of murder, drugs, and psycho-sexual psychologically, i found this film to be one of the most sexually charged films in a long time. think something along the lines of LAST TANGO IN Paris.there are powerful performances here amidst delicate subject matter; not for the faint at heart.immediately i was gripped from the opening scene; the film further picks up momentum with the arrival of a hustler (andre scheider); from there its a wild ride.unlike most films of this nature, the dialogue is superbly written.the film has a fine balance of cinema verite and traditional narrative.

the sexy guy from Colgado de la luna and La Silla, andre schneider, wrote, produced and starred in this dark fairytale of a drug habit that becomes an obsession. the title rang my bell. wasn't that an infamous internet hoax a couple of years ago? schneider was falsely blamed for it, and his career was almost over. now he got it made, ij. biermann directed it, and this year, he showed it audiences in Madrid. the audience liked it, but I am unsure to this day. the plot was intriguing, but the way it was told was too much for me: too much sex, too many drugs, too gory, too much blood. still, there were some good ideas in it and the dialogue was fine. meanwhile, schneider did good in some smaller parts in Spanish low budget movies, so he doesn't need to bother how this cheap little cult trash porn is received. barbara kowa deserves a special mention, her powerful appearance lifts the movie's value up, up, up.

Deed Poll is a cool movie, though I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. It's a tough cookie. I watched it by accident at a friend's house and thought it was nicely made - it's astounding to see what you can do with no budget.The story is interesting and could have made a full-length picture. One wonders why they made it a short one.The sex scenes are very aesthetic and staged in an artistic appealing way. The direction could have been better, all in all, the movie seems a bit cold and lacks high emotions. The actors do well and after all, this is Kowa's and Schneider's film.Many people might expect to see Orlando Bloom. He isn't in it, a guy named Wittenauer plays Sean Poll, and he does it decently. 8/10

I watched this movie a couple of weeks ago and must say: I was not impressed, not at all. I do side with the other posters when it comes to the fine performances, but some good performances do not make a good movie.On the discussion board, I found a review by an anonymous poster that captured some of the main points. It says: "'Deed Poll' is a movie that raises many questions but hardly answers even a few; a movie that is disturbing and above every attempt at categorizing; an experiment and a very conventional sexual drama despite some shocking scenes. The brilliant acting of Barbara Kowa and André Schneider, the partly very impressive editing and the good camera work (Steffen Ritter) make up for gross plot holes and some technical slips (especially in sound). However, the boredom the audiences have to deal with for 40 minutes remains." Unfortunately, this is true. I wasn't intrigued by the story at all. The protagonists are cold, ambition-less people. They do a lot of drugs and have a lot of (incestuous) sex. So what? For many times, the direction seemed to be virtually non-existent, not to mention the technical aspect: the poor sound quality was enormously disturbing.What's the point of the movie? What's the message behind it all? The anonymous reviewer said: "Somehow Biermann failed to make a clear point and so the movie remains hanging in mid-air without a message. Thus the boredom I blame on the movie. The movie is reserved and emotionless, cold, almost neutral and it doesn't take long to see the flaws: for long stretches the characters of Sean and Ivy are not credible (they clearly have difficulties with the English pronunciation), the character of the mute brother is not developed very well. Some moments are very promising though - in the scene where the call boy is skinned (the one and only true love scene) an intensity is reached that one would love to see the whole movie long. As a spectator one has to regret the chances given away." Again, I must agree. I did like the final scene, especially because of the beautifully captured faces of Gianni Meurer and André Schneider, but it was nothing compared to the boredom I had to suffer for the first thirty minutes. (The sex scenes, though, were aesthetically staged and perfectly edited.)All in all, "Deed Poll" was not my cup of tea - a good, controversial idea wasted -, but it was a interesting to see how a movie can be made with practically no money. Maybe if they had a bigger budget and a more experienced director, this would have become a better movie.