Make Love - Liebe machen kann man lernen - DVD

Content: Every generation has its enlighteners. After Oswald Kolle, Dr. Sommer and Erika Berger, Ann-Marlene Henning now sets out to enlighten the Germans and teach them how to make love. After all, sexual dissatisfaction is considered the number one relationship killer - and in most cases it's a home-made problem that could be solved relatively easily - provided there are no medical reasons - if only the partners would finally talk openly and unbiasedly about their desires, needs, fears and worries. But sexuality is still a taboo subject, which is to be freed of its disreputability in the series Make Love - Liebe machen kann man lernen. With a refreshing openness and directness Henning and her team want to show the viewers that sex is something quite natural and that you do not need to be ashamed of your desires, your desires, but also for its problems.

In five episodes of just under 45 minutes each, the series deals with very different problems that can bring human togetherness - but also the single existence - with it. From educating children about sexual dissatisfaction, erectile dysfunction, communication difficulties, false ideals of a potential partner to the need to get to know one's own body better, here we talk quite openly and uninhibitedly about what one otherwise prefers to keep to oneself. The open approach to these topics is intended to show that it is precisely the fact that they are not talked about or not talked about enough that is primarily responsible for the fact that relationship-threatening problems can arise from them.

Make Love - Liebe machen kann man lernen has attracted a lot of attention in advance through such sequences in which sexual acts or the sexual organs are shown in all clarity. However, it must be said that such sequences make up only a minimal part of the episodes and that they were also staged completely without voyeurism. The makers have found the perfect blend of objectivity and candid realism here, through which the viewer does not feel like a voyeur and becomes quite open to learning something from what is shown here.

In the end, however, this series makes one thing clear first and foremost. Change starts in the mind. Until we start to shed some shame towards our partner and talk openly about everything, even the most vivid examples and engaging guidebooks can't help. A really entertaining guide worth watching, with the chapter on educating children and teenagers in the internet age being particularly interesting. Recommended!

Image + Sound: The audio-visual realization of the five episodes is on a good level for a TV documentary series. The picture is absolutely clean, the overall sharpness and also the coloration convince all along the line. The sound, which is in stereo, is quite unspectacular, but for the fact that its main task is to reproduce the conversations and off-commentaries in a way that is easy to understand, its mixing has turned out more than satisfactory. Good!

Extras: Apart from the trailer, the double DVD has no bonus material to offer.

Conclusion:Make Love is a successful enlightenment series that talks about sexuality, love and partnership in a completely uninhibited way and addresses the many essential problems of loneliness and togetherness in a relaxed but not watered-down way. In addition to the many very frank conversations and helpful advice, the series has also made headlines with quite explicit depictions of sex, with these sequences being really well done and implemented far from any form of voyeurism. An entertaining as well as helpful advice series, presented on DVD in suitably good picture and sound quality. Recommendable

An article by Frankfurt-Tipp