Dizzy is a perennial student living in a small double room in a hostel. He never seems to study, but spends his time sleeping, watching TV, and drinking. Marko, a studious freshman from the ... Read allDizzy is a perennial student living in a small double room in a hostel. He never seems to study, but spends his time sleeping, watching TV, and drinking. Marko, a studious freshman from the country, is assigned to the other bed in the room, and he is soon joined by his young, ver... Read allDizzy is a perennial student living in a small double room in a hostel. He never seems to study, but spends his time sleeping, watching TV, and drinking. Marko, a studious freshman from the country, is assigned to the other bed in the room, and he is soon joined by his young, very pregnant, girlfriend Ana. Meanwhile, Dizzy's girlfriend Marina is trying to get Dizzy to... Read all
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Dizzy is a man about 28 years old. Maybe 30. He has a girlfriend, but he hasn't got a job, he's not willing to get a degree, although he's not stupid, as he knows that some f......k volcano in the middle of nowhere is called Popocatepetle.
He' trapped in between choosing something (getting a job, getting married), but he's not convinced that this is something he really wants.
So he drinks with his fellow friends and follows football and wanders around - doing nothing. Then a freshman comes in his students room. 18-year old, who comes from some Trbovlje village. He looks naive and he's trying to become an electrician.
However the young roommate also has a girlfriend. A pregnant one! And this makes Dizzy, who is 30 think about what he wants to do with his life. So the story is about growing up. About taking responsibility and building something - a family, which gives a man, who feels lost, the sense of it's own worth.
Maybe was the scenography, which was 20 years out of date, or maybe was the black and white picture or maybe was just an extraordinary characters, lack of action and a depressive note, especially at the end. Beats me.
So despite that, did I enjoy this movie?
Yes. Some scenes were hilariously funny with very original jokes never seen before. Also good casting (at this point I should mention brilliant play by the freshman Janez Rus) did it's job.
V Leru is undoubtfully one of the best movies made in Slovenija for the past last years, not my favourite, but still, for originality
7 out of 10
"Life sucks" might not seem to be an entirely uplifting ending for a film - I'm not sure how good the translation from Slovenian is - but closing a conversation between two college guys about the difficulty of getting quality sporting merchandise and getting caught in a bureaucratic nightmare tops off one of a number of excellent dialogues/monologues in this film.
Not only is the dialogue crisp & witty (co-written by Jan Cvitkovic, who also plays the main character, Dizzy, and the director, Janez Burger) the characters are believable and multi-faceted. Many of Dizzy's monologues are hilariously funny. He and his friends often seem totally oblivious of social mores and protocols, yet they're not *total* boors about it and we tend to forgive them.
Relationships and what drive them figure highly in the film. Dizzy seems to ascribe to the electron theory of relationships - "follow the path of least resistance" but after awhile this doesn't bode well with girlfriend Marina. Dizzy's roommate, Marko, asks if it's ok for Ana (his girlfriend) to move in, as she has no where else to go. Dizzy assents, just admonishing Marko not to bring all his other relatives too.
One of the more humorous films I've seen in a while - a dozen or so Slovenian teens were in the audience where I saw it - and they weren't the only ones laughing!
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- $250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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