Peacock

2024 [GERMAN]

Comedy / Drama

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 100% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 100%
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 2251 2.3K

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Plot summary

Matthias is a master of pretense, from cultured boyfriend to perfect son or marital coach. He makes a career of being someone else. The real challenge begins when he has to be himself.

Director

Bernhard Wenger Photo
Bernhard Wenger

Top cast

Albrecht Schuch Photo
Albrecht Schuch as Matthias
Maria Hofstätter Photo
Maria Hofstätter as Vera
Michael Edlinger Photo
Michael Edlinger as Ina's Companion
Brigitte Kren Photo
Brigitte Kren as Client Celebrating 60th Birthday's Wife
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
946.42 MB
1280*536
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 28
1.9 GB
1920*1080
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 70

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 9 / 10

It is really good

Peacock is just a really good movie. There is not much more to say about it. The story is very concise. It has a clear setup and payoff, every scene has its purpose and it builds up to an ending that is phenomena and brings everything full circle. The topic of "faking it" to meet society´s expectations is something that most of us will feel familiar with, but it is a joy to see it taken to the absolute extreme, and explore, what that it do to a person, if they never allow themselves to be...Themselves. It has a lot of funny scenes but the overall topic really made me reflect on myself and all the times, I squeezed myself into a "role", just because that was what I perceived what other people wanted me to be like. I would watch it again in a heartbeat and feel comfortable to highly reccommend it to anyone who is going to the cinema to receive "food for thought" in an entertaining manner.
Reviewed by 7 / 10

Peacock

The moustachioed "Matthias" (Albrecht Schuch) works for a business that rents him out. Not for sex, but for just about everything else and he's good at it. From a companion at a posh concert to a gay lover to a gent who pretends to be a son so he can help his "dad" get to be president of his golf club, he can turn his hand to most things with aplomb. Except, that is, in his perfectly styled home where he and girlfriend "Sophia" (Julia Franz Richter) are having troubles. She is fed up with the mundane sterility of their life and with him becoming more and more subsumed by his vocation. When she finally ups sticks, she leaves him having to deal with quite an existential crisis that causes him to completely reevaluate his life. What isn't helping is the disgruntled husband of one of his "assignments" as he - "Johann" (Branko Samarovski) - is looking for his own pound of flesh and is no mean umbrella wielder! Perhaps a rural retreat might help? Well there he reunites with "Ina" (Theresa Frostad Eggesbø) whom he met on a previous job and who seems to take the same approach to the meditation lawn as he does (and probably we do, too!). In the end, though, his ordered life has been thoroughly upset and as his last and biggest task looms, maybe "Matthias" is facing his Waterloo? Some of the dialogue here is genuinely funny as the scenarios poke collective fun at pomposity, stupidity and at so much of society's other, snobbish and preposterous, emperor's new clothes attitudes. Schuch manages to keep a straight face throughout much of this and that - and as we come to the film's coup de grâce, is actually quite an achievement. It's a successful spoof of cinema genres across the board as well as one on human behaviour and I'm no dog lover, so that bit worked for me too! This is good fun.
Reviewed by 10 / 10

Tragically comedic and unique drama

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