★★★★☆ Winner of the Best Debut Feature award at this year's Raindance Film Festival, Viktor Chouchkov's Tilt (2011) may well be flawed and occasionally cringe-worthy, but it's also fantastically fun and formally assured. Set in the late 1980s as Bulgaria's political landscape was in a state of flux, the film details the tumultuous relationship between young lovers Stash (Yavor Baharov) and Becky (Radina Kardjilova) as they experience the hardships existing on both sides of the 1990 free election that dissects the film.
Threatened by Becky's crooked cop father, Stash and his pornography-pedalling friends emigrate to Germany, the fall of the Berlin wall promising a better life for the teenagers. Finding themselves digging graves and robbing pawn shops to keep afloat, the boys decide to venture back to their hometown to reunite the young couple.
From the first scene - set in the boys' wonderfully designed porn cellar - Tilt establishes a momentum that never subsides,...
Threatened by Becky's crooked cop father, Stash and his pornography-pedalling friends emigrate to Germany, the fall of the Berlin wall promising a better life for the teenagers. Finding themselves digging graves and robbing pawn shops to keep afloat, the boys decide to venture back to their hometown to reunite the young couple.
From the first scene - set in the boys' wonderfully designed porn cellar - Tilt establishes a momentum that never subsides,...
- 10/13/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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