Movie House: Peacock by director Bernhard Wenger

Whether a caring son, an exercise partner to argue with or a +1 for an evening of opera, he effortlessly plays any role he wants. But the more responsive he becomes to the expectations of others, the further removed he becomes from himself. Behind his carefully orchestrated life grows an emptiness that is increasingly difficult to ignore. An identity crisis inevitably forces itself upon him. In his black-comic feature debut, Bernhard Wenger painfully and wittily explores what happens when you mold yourself completely to the wishes of others. Peacock is an absurdist, confrontational film about losing yourself in a world that constantly demands something of you.