OK, I'm bias, I have to admit. Being a patriot and the actor who plays the main character is from the same one-horse-town as I am (we lived just two blocks apart) and I do know the guy personally (got drunk with him on more then one occasion), I really can not be completely objective to this film.
It is still a good film. I have to say some things about the background of the movie. In Slovenia there are almost no independent films. There are only three or four films made every year (and that's if the year is good). They are usually funded by the state and very crappy. There have only been two watchable films in the last ten years.
This movie, however, is independent and was a huge success at home. Matjaz Javsnik (in the lead role) has already made a name for himself before. He is the person who brought the improvisational theater to Slovenia and had some other stage hits with which he toured all over the country.
So once he started making this movie, there was great interest in it. He was able to get enough money for it (in comparison to other Slovene films, this one wasn't really low budget - regardless of what you might think).
And the dark humor you see in this movie is actually a way of life around here. People are full of black humor and nothing is really sacred. Slovenians are unfortunately among the most suicidal nations in the world (we overtook the Japanese in these sad statistics somewhere in the early eighties).
So enjoy the movie, even though it starts of really idiotically, after about twenty minutes it starts developing and by the end of it, you'll get the feeling you have really seen something worth while.
