Frozen Stiff

Great plot, great characters, great pacing, great cinematography. 10/10 One of the best Balkan movies made.

Would recommend.

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I am Bulgarian and I find this Balkans humor quite accurate and funny, obviously because I've grown up with it.

Here the comedy may be shown in a slightly dark way, which audience have to understand, but the film, generally, has a great theme and story.

That's about the only scene that made me smile, which is a serious problem when you take into account that it is a comedy. Milorad Milinkovic's directorial debut is a comedy of confusion, but while the idea is good, it worked out badly. It relies more on vulgarity in the expression and behavior of the characters, as well as our sympathy for well-known actors, than on the qualities of the story itself, which is rather lazily written. The movie is not boring, but it is not particularly funny either, and apart from the idea and strong cast, I have nothing to praise and recommend.

6/10

MRTAV ` LADAN is the directing debut of Milorad Milinkovic Debeli, famous music clip and theatre director who is very well known for his New Wave antics in Serbian rock`n`roll. This time round he finally debuts on the big screen in Serbian adaptation of Hitchcock`s TROBLE WITH HARRY and the WEEKEND AT BERNIE`S franchise. Debeli is talented and old enough to keep overwhelming actors at bay even though most of the laughs are sniffed out of curses. And foul mouth isn`t a reliable source of humor. Plotting is also a wee bit convulted since there are too many obstacles for main characters and not too many ways to solve these situations. This is why audience is forced to wait for the miscellaneous hijinks for the plot to move forward. Relying on luck makes characters look passive. Some situations are poorly staged but who are we to whine when MRTAV `LADAN is one of the rare Serbian movies shot on film stock, even though it`s 16mm. As it is, it is mildly enjoyable. One of the finest films in the season when we had only 3 barely watchable Serbian films. Yeah, right.