Ben (Adam Buller) is a very talented passport and green card forger - but he's not really enjoying the job or being a good businessman. For example, when illegal European immigrant Lucy (Dana Tatrtau) asks for his services, he at first refuses to pay her because she can't pay up front, but later when she brings the money by after the fact, he refuses to accept it. Feeling she still owes him, she invites him to dinner and they later have sex - which Ben only reluctantly agrees to as he doesn't want to exploit the girl. However, he ultimately falls for the girl and brings her flowers - which she refuses to accept as she considers them not coming from the heart. They have a massive row after which he storms off figuring he'll never hear from her again - only a few days later receiving a bos containing her severed right arm. At first he's very worried she might have fallen into the wrong hands, but after he manages to track her down, he learns that she has done this out of love.He goes so far as to mount her severed arm on his wall, and they have sex under it, but when the next day she cuts off one of her toes right in front of him, he's so shocked he throws her out ... and almost immediately wants her back. But there's only one way to show her that he loves her ...

Now I won't claim for a minute that this film isn't quite a bit sick and is thus not a film for everybody. But if you look behind all the severed limbs, the blood and the pain, this is also a very sincere love story - which really makes the film so powerful, it's not merely a one-trick-pony but shows depth, And the direction finds just the right balance between the two extremes then while the acting's subtle and mostly low key, , all of which helps telling a really powerful and pretty unusual story.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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