Debut

The first temptation was to define this very short film as ...bizarre. Because the photography is just great. Because the music is far to be bad. But the story... . The story is only propaganda and the end is so unrealistic than works as a sort of hit in stomach.

A young farmer. His good activity in soccer team. A significant game for the presumed chance to be selected for an important team. A good game and the gesture of main character, excused by joy - enthusiasm, provocking stupor to his mates.

All the preview scenes, composing sadness and lonely moments of young man are well explained. But, I write again, the end is just...not inspired and the last message - the film is a matterial of European Commision not helps very much.

Important - it is a nice crafted film by Dalibor Matanic. So, against bad details, he just deserves, for Debut, some applauses.

This was propaganda pure and simple. That such an acclaimed director as Dalibor Matanic put his moniker to this is surprising in the extreme. I'm flabbergasted he didn't object to the doomladen piano music which was so clichéd as to ruin the remnants of any credibility the film had.

The film expressed a view of what life should be like in the European Union, not what it actually is. That a group of yokel footballers in a country not known for its gay friendliness, quite the reverse in fact, would engender such a happy ending was utterly unlikely.

I'm glad the film was only four minutes long!