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Way to the Neighbour (1968)

1968 · Short film · 10 min · dir. Lutz Mommartz

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Synopsis

A single, uninterrupted, ten-minute static take of actress Renate Meve's face as she has sex with an unseen man.

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Details

Director
Lutz Mommartz
Released
1968-10-08
Original title
Weg zum Nachbarn
Running time
10 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · love meets art · left wing films · 2005-12-01

I must say I m a geek for Richard Kern Experimental 16mm BW and Warhol 16mm BW which could lead me to say that I like this one but much more than that as I edited it and busted it from my G4 Powerbook into my living room wall while listening to Tchaikovsky 's Elegia, Serenade For String Orchestra in loop and totally adore it A 5 stars must see

★★★★★ · music for the soundtrack · monkey brains retort · 2025-09-07

personally, i think the best musical accompaniment would be the Benny Hill theme song when things start to speed up. i've tried everything i could think of and never got anywhere near this kind of response from a woman - and all this guy had to do was lay there, lucky sob.

★★★★ · Top of the mountain · Solightly · 2023-11-19

I think it is mistaken to suggest the woman reaches orgasm twice. Her journey slowly takes her, presumably with penetrative sex, to a plateau of ecstatic pleasure. This is assumed to be a peak of orgasm. After wards she slow down into pleasure lull and then releases herself completely in her pursuit of a full bodied orgasm. The absoluteness of orgasm, is evident by the emotional and physical surrender. And in the transformative changes in her facial expressions afterwards. This does not occur around the pleasure plateau. Reading the description of ‘two orgasms’ before watching the film, was a…

★★★★ · Lovely face · ghostlightlyeagle · 2019-09-23

Doesn't her face just tell you all you need - the rest is up to you - very subtle - I loved this - would have just liked a little more of her

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