User Reviews

This movie was recommended to me by a friend, and they seem to have good taste in movies so I watched it on a streaming service.

The plot (1.5/5) The plot revolves around a director making a movie at a friend's apartment but not really knowing what she wants to create. As a result, there is an abundance of sexual scenes (supposedly unsimulated) that seem to exist only to show sex scenes.

The acting (1.5/5) The acting is certainly sub-par. There are two reasons for this in my opinion. 1, the director wanted the sex scenes to be real so he looked for inexperienced actors. 2, the plot / script wasn't all that great to begin with so you can only be as good as what you work with.

I would not watch this movie again, now would I recommend it to any friends (or enemies for that matter).

"Bedways" is a German movie from 2010, so it already has its 7th anniversary this year. The writer and director is Rolf Peter Kahl and even if he is mostly known for being an actor really, he still has some films under his belt where he was the man in charge. And the sad thing is that even if this film turned out so bad here, it still did not keep him from making more films. Anyway, apparently here we have a film on film as several character are re-enacting scenes from an upcoming movie or something. It never feels authentic though. There is a lot of sex, masturbation in here and also when the action is not explicit, we gets tons of dirty talk and sexual innuendo. I have no problem with that if they manage to create a convincing plot around all this nudity, but they did not. Not at all. With the final masturbation scene, it almost felt as if Kahl surrendered and just kept going by turning this into porn, so that at least people would talk about it and care about it to some extent, so it would not be entirely forgettable. He probably succeeded from that embarrassing perspective. As for the acting in here, it is on par with the script and elevates the really weak screenplay on no occasion. I very much wonder why actors would want to appear in here. I cannot believe anybody saw something artistic in the plot here. the most known cast member is probably Laura Tonke who did amazing last year, also at the German Film Awards, but this film is evidence that not even for her everyone's a winner. Overall, I'd recommend to stay away from this one. The worst thing about it is probably, also with the quote towards the end, it actually takes itself seriously and thinks of itself as an artistic achievement. I don't think it's nowhere near such a description. It's with very few exceptions (scenes and sequences) a failure from start to finish and I myself was glad it runs for only 75 minutes. Stay far far away.

Story was something like...hey, I want to make a sexually explicit movie while not making a porno, while making a porno, and I want to use two people who don't know each other to banter over plot lines and character names.

I really wanted to find something to like about this film. Using women who weren't anatomical cartoons was nice. The actresses were attractive and low key in their assigned duties. The guy looked like, Wow, all this and unsimulated sex, too? Sign me up?"

In the end, I think we were watching the director living her sexuality issues thru the other two...I think. The extended scene where she "satisfies" herself is less erotic than realistic, almost uncomfortable to watch in its portrayal.

It stumbles along, trying to take itself seriously, only to fall on its face, the closing scene where she, with hollow eyes, finds herself looking off into some void of space. I felt just like that when the credits rolled by.