"Wie man leben soll" or "The Way to live" is a n Austrian/Danish co-production in the German language from 2011. Honestly I can see almost no Danish component here. Anyway, this film is almost 10 years old now, maybe more depending on when you read my review and it was directed by David Schalko and he is also one of the writers here who adapted the novel it is originally based on. It runs for 100 minutes and the lead actor is Axel Ranisch, a prolific filmmaker himself, and maybe you don't know him so well, but that's okay. It is really the supporting players here lik Buck, Hader, Stadlober, Hofstätter and a few others who are among the most known for sure and if you are like myself a lot into German movies, you certainly have come across some of them before already. Anyway, as for the movie if this is not the first mix of drama and comedy from Austria that you intend to check out, then you know at least vaguely what to expect here. But no matter what you expect, you may realize eventually that the film is (also because of the book it is based on) probably a lot more crasser than you expected. Just take the scene in which a young woman dies. It is tragic, but lets be honest there are other equally tragic events like this one taking place on several occasions, but the movie has a really dark comedic tone to deal with that and I would say it is only partially successful. I like dark comedy, but this one here as even for me a bit too much I suppose. Or is it good that it touched me and maybe even offended me because it shows I started caring for the characters? Perhaps not entirely wrong, but in general I would say no. Especially when it comes to the main character because I couldn't care less about him, then again admittedly Ranisch is not lead actor material and as he is in almost every scene from start to finish in these over 1.5 hours, it is not helping the matter at all. The supporting cast, basically all the actors I just mentioned except Stadlobeer (so that's where he went) were a bigger reason for me to watch this one, especially Hader. He is almost always amazing, but here he just has so little screen time it is a bit sad. Same about the others really, you should not watch this movie for the supporting actors. And still somehow they managed to make their story lines feel fairly unrealistci despite how rarely they were seen. The best example of how this film goes way over the top in a really bad way is that scene when the protagonist ens up in bed performing mouth to south action on another male. Tough to put it like that, but I have to get past imdb censors somehow once again. That scene was really a negative highlight because hands down, this is not what the male (or any male for that matter) protagonist would have acted like whatsoever if he has no sexual interest in other men, which obviously he does not looking at how it's only girls in his life for the rest of the movie and also taking into account how wrong this experiment goes. Basically, as a consequence, the film goes fairly wrong at times too. It is not on failure territory overall, but there is also no way I can give a thumbs-up and positive recommendation here. I like Austrian films, especially dramedy (even if this one here is more about the comedy) works more than theone we have here. I suggest you watch something else instead.