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Peacock - Expat Cinema

You can hire Matthias as a company, he can be anything and everything for you. But who is he really himself? A question he is increasingly unable to answer.

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

Peacock

Looking for the perfect company? Then turn to the agency My Companion, where you can hire professional company. Whether you're looking for someone for an evening of opera, the perfect son or an exercise partner to argue with. Matthias works for the agency and he can safely be called the perfect +1. Effortlessly, he can fit into any role, but that talent has a downside: the more he conforms to the expectations his clients have, the more disattached he becomes from himself. The inner emptiness can no longer be ignored; an identity crisis presents itself.

Absurdist and black humour predominate in this self-written feature debut by Austrian director Bernhard Wenger. No matter how strange the character Matthias is, he remains believable and this is mainly thanks to actor Albrecht Schuch, who with nuance and great comic timing shapes the man who increasingly wonders if he is real.