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Ognjen SviličićOperatőr:
Stanko HercegZeneszerző:
Michael BauerSzereplők:
Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Armin Omerovic, Marie Bäumer, Saša Anočić, Daria Lorenci, Senad Basic, Jens Münchow, Tvrtko Juric, Orhan Güner, Mesud Dedovic (több)Tartalmak(1)
Ibro and his 13-year-old son Armin undertake a journey from their home village in Bosnia to Zagreb, only a few hundred kilometers away. Armin has been invited there to audition for a German film production about war in the former Yugoslavia. The possibility of getting work raises hopes of better times, but on arrival in the five star hotel in the Croatian capital, they realize that they've entered a world that seems like another planet to them and whose rules of the game they don't know.
The characters develop their human warmth in halting loops - achieved by a remarkable pair of actors. Their nonverbal communication is manifest in small gestures, minimal looks, and discreet body language - from the awkwardness they display faced with a savvy production secretary to the disputes they have while waiting in the hotel foyer. Director Ognjen Svilicic overlays the initial general sense of melancholy with human sympathy and the subtle comedy of the situation, giving us a picture of culture clash. Throughout the process, father and son remain the morose characters that they already were - proving to be sovereign enough not to fall into the globalized permanent smile of the "new Europe".
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An artsy student short, dragged out to eighty-two minutes which are utterly cra... I don’t want to be foul mouthed, but you probably have an idea what I mean. What in the end makes Armin a good movie that is far from being a waste of time and money is the relationship between Armin and his father. For it is fully functional and at the same time beautiful (if sad) and you understand them both even without words. That isn’t where the problem lies. The problems lies in absolutely everything else. Starting with the pace, finishing with the supporting roles.
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