The physically decaying Count von Hohenholz (Hermes Phettberg) lives in his decaying estate in desperate need of money, reminiscing the good old time, while his only company (besides his dog without hindlegs) is social worker Jean-Jacques (Henning Gronkowski), who takes care of the Count rather touchingly and takes all of his eccentricities in stride - which is why the Count has taken to him, and he wants Jean-Jacques to be his heir and the bearer of the family name, since he's planning to die soon (assisted suicide is the option he has chosen) ... but there's still the matter of the Count's son Konstantin (Rainer Meifert), a loser who has brought nothing but shame to the family name (in the Count's view) and who's presently pushing drugs to make a living. Then Konstantin arrives at the estate with his new wife, ex-prostitute Nadja (Hanni Bergesch), and Nadja's teenaged daughter from a former relationship Grace (Paulina Weiner) - and it doesn't take the Count long to make up a plan for Jean-Jacques to kill Konstantin ... while it doesn't take Jean-Jacques long to shag both Nadja and Grace. But Konstantin's drug-pushing lifestyle has put him on a few hitlists as well, and it's not long before everything ends in chaos ...

A Perception's central point is of course its lead Hermes Phettberg, an Austrian celebrity who celebrated his slightly grotesque appearance at the height of his TV-fame, but who has since fallen into actual decay, mirroring the state of his character perfectly. But that's not only a good thing, because Phettberg is someone who's good at portraying himself, but he's not much of an actor, and his diction is slurring and his dialogue riddled by endless unnecessary repetitions which make his parts hard to follow. The rest of the cast is solid, but they all seem to play caricatures rather than characters and lack any real depth, while the script is cliché-ridden and lacks any sense of irony. That said, the whole thing isn't without its rather decent scenes and sequences, but as a whole fails to totally convince.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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