Angelina Maccarone's intense drama deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man...
Acting
Maren Kroymann's unraveling is devastating; Kostja Ullmann's dead-eyed submission haunts.
Direction
Maccarone refuses easy moral answers, letting discomfort breathe.
Director
Angelina Maccarone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maccarone, an openly lesbian director, deliberately queers the male gaze by making the woman the agent of desire and the young man its passive object.
The film's German title 'Verführung' means 'seduction'—revealing whose perspective the marketing prioritizes versus what actually unfolds.
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