The Artist and the Pervert (2018)

It would be easy to presume a documentary about Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas would center on his microtonal masterpieces, but that’s not the case here. Instead the focus is on his dominant-submissive marriage to American writer and kink educator Mollena Williams-Haas. On the surface their personalities and backgrounds seem like they couldn’t be more different, but their relationship comes across as a true meeting of equals who have found exactly what they want in a partner. It’s a fairly standard documentary made more interesting by the uncommon subject matter and subjects. As a matter of personal preference, I could do without the more sexually intimate scenes shown, but I’m also someone who feels weird seeing sex scenes in narrative films between real life couples.