Archive of films Suburbs / Predmestje
Slovenia
2004, 90 min
Section:
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
Year: 2005
Violent, darkly comic drama centred on four amoral, working-class slobs in a Slovenian hamlet.
Synopsis
Festering racial hatred and sinister personal demons combine to make amoral monsters of four working-class Joes in the harrowing, darkly comic Suburbs. Audiences brave enough to endure brief hardcore passages (played for grins) and the apparent onscreen shooting of a dog (no laughing matter) will be rewarded, if that’s the word, by an uncompromising meditation on cruelty bred of ignorance and fear, shot through with bleak, dark humor. From Blue Velvet to Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke to The Machinist, the concept of extraordinary brutality lurking beneath ordinary exteriors has been a subject ripe for a genre that might be called the Cinema of Endurance. For writer and theater director Vinko Moederndorfer, here making an assured helming debut from his novel, the overarching metaphor is the morally barren suburb of the soul from which senseless rage springs.
Eddie Cockrell
Contacts
Slovenian Film Center
Miklošičeva 38, 1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: +38 612 343 200
Fax: +38 612 343 219
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.sfc.si
Forum Ljublana
Metelkova 6, SI-1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: +386 1 43 14 254
Fax: +386 1 433 80 74
About the film
Color, 35 mm
Section: | Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! |
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Director: | Vinko Möderndorfer |
Screenplay: | Vinko Möderndorfer |
Dir. of Photography: | Dušan Joksimović |
Music: | Jani Golob |
Editor: | Andrija Zafranović |
Producer: | Eva Rohrman |
Production: | Forum Ljublana |
Cast: | Renato Jenček, Peter Musevski, Jernej Šugman |
Contact: | Slovenian Film Center, Forum Ljublana |
www: | www.predmestje.org |
Guests
Eva Rohrman
Producer
Vinko Möderndorfer
Film Director
Nataša Kočar
Film Institution Rep.