The Corpse of Anna Fritz

In Lukas Hemleb's provocative and unsettling The Corpse of Anna Fritz, a deceased celebrity's body becomes the object of morbid fascination for a group of young, unmoored loners. At a morgue where she is laid out, the corpse of the glamorous Anna Fritz (Katja Riemann) attracts the attention of Pau (Pau Novikov), a meek attendant who, along with his disaffected friends, begins to manipulate the corpse with disturbing, taboo-breaking abandon. The film is a chilling meditation on the commodification of beauty and the allure of transgression.