Suburbs
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2005 / Predmestje / Slovenia 2004
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
About the film
90 min / Color, 35 mm
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
Contacts
Slovenian Film Center
Miklošičeva 38, 1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone: +38 612 343 200
Fax: +38 612 343 219
E-mail: info@sfc.si
Forum Ljublana
Metelkova 6, SI-1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 43 14 254
Fax: +386 1 433 80 74
Guests
Eva Rohrman
Producer
Vinko Möderndorfer
Film Director
Nataša Kočar
Film Institution Rep.
