January 21, 2015 -- This German comedy about a wild young woman who has unusual uses for vegetables and tells a really disgusting story about pizza is filled with unsettling fantasy sequences. The whole thing is a fantasy, which makes it difficult to tell which is the “real” story at times.

The first thing I did when I looked up the information on this movie is to see who wrote the screenplay. I felt sure that no woman would write a screenplay like this, and I was right. This is male fantasy, pure and simple, well, maybe not so simple. There is some complex psychology at play in this film which is never fully revealed. Parts of it are tales one might hear in a grade school bathroom.

The main character, Helen Memel (played by Carla Juri of “Someone Like Me”) is a woman whose parents have divorced and she wants to get them back together. She is good at manipulating people, but her attempts to manipulate her parents don't seem to work. She gets another chance when she ends up in the hospital with an anal cut, a shaving injury. She conspires, with the help of a male nurse, Robin (Christoph Letkowski) to stay in the hospital a couple of extra days to try to get her parents back together.

Leading up to her hospital stay, the film takes us back to Helen's childhood, when her mother (Meret Becker of “Munich”) forced her to disinfect the bathroom because her fear of germs. Helen rebels in her later years by wiping the scuzz off public toilet seats with her bare bottom. She is defiantly non-hygienic. She brags that she's never gotten a yeast infection.

With her best friend, Corinna (Marlen Kruse) the two have fun playing with their bodies. Helen teaches Corinna her method of attracting boys, by putting her finger in her vagina and smearing the resulting residue around her neck and face. There is a scene with the two swapping home-made tampons and smearing menstrual blood on their faces like war paint. In the hospital, Helen spits into other people's water containers when no one is looking.

If this sounds gross to you, that's not the half of it, there are a lot more scenes of that nature in this film. There is also a lot of frank sexual talk and a fair amount of nudity. Helen has success with men, is probably not because of the vaginal odor she emits, but more likely because of her looks. She is beautiful, young and sexually available. That is a formula for attracting men that works.

There are several fantasy sequences where disturbing things happen. I would find myself getting upset at what happens in a scene, and then it would turn out it didn't happen at all. It is clear that there is something wrong with Helen's mental state, but it is never really explained, just hinted at in flashbacks. She acts like a spoiled child through much of the film. Her parents are rich and she is beautiful. She has every advantage in life. She can usually get what she wants. In the end, it looks like she is maybe going to grow up.

The acting in the film is good and Carla Juri is very easy on the eyes, and you get to see every inch of her. I got tired of the flashbacks and fantasy sequences that didn't really add anything to the film. I did not care for most of the gross-out scenes and I got tired of Helen's incessant narcissism, naïveté and irresponsibility as well. This film rates a C.

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