ronchow
This film on the life of a college student doubling up as a call girl is watchable but not particularly moving. First of, the girl went into prostitution not to support her college education, but to maintain a flat in a choice location. Right there my feeling for her as a young woman deserving sympathy evaporated. The acting was decent, and if you expect to see much nudity in this film you will be disappointed.Instead, we were exposed to the array of her clientele, from a generous join from Britain to one obsessed with hygiene - rubber gloves in both hands. There was this usual side story of her fleeing from two men who wanted to pimp her, and from the police due to the Viagra-induced death on one client. However, the story overall is fairly simplistic and not engaging enough.This is a film from Film Movements, and I actually expected a higher quality film. As is, it is enjoyable to watch - but just barely.
filmalamosa
As the movie opens we pick up on Aleksandra who has moved from a small town to Ljubljana to study English.On the side she has set up a lucrative career as a call girl. We follow her in her new life. The first trick she services has taken an overdose of Viagra and dies of a heart attack. Later some thugs try to recruit her and threaten her by dangling her off a high rise balcony. She gets scared and goes home losing all her dreams of attractive apartments and big city life.I have never seen a movie with so many scrungy obese men. They must have searched Slovenia for beer guts and made them all grow 2 week beards. There is no human eye candy in this thing.After seeing what was available to her in her home town--I definitely think she should have taken up with the thugs and kept up her life style.This movie is naive and boring. The cinematography is average at best. One of the clues to the latter is too obvious visual symbolism using things like scrawled messages on walls which they will show you 4 or 5 times.DO NOT RECOMMEND
charlytully
Obviously, SLOVENIAN GIRL director Damjan Kozole adheres closely to the Lars von Trier school of filmmaking: make the viewing experience as unpleasant at possible for the watcher. While a plot about an under-supported coed making her way through her higher learning by dabbling in the elder professions has been pulled off loads of times in an interesting fashion (CITY ISLAND comes first to mind among movies contemporary to SLOVENIAN GIRL), it usually requires an erotic element to nail such a story down. Unfortunately, Nina Ivanisin as the title character in Kozole's film does not strike one as a convincing 20-euro-a-crack call girl, let alone meriting the 200 euro specified in this story. Further, the actors playing her johns seem hard-pressed to avoid demanding their money back during the few parting scenes Kozole incorporates into SLOVENIAN GIRL. Last night I saw a similarly-themed film from Israel (THE ASSASSIN NEXT DOOR, written and directed by Danny Lerner). Though Olga Kurylenko as the latter title character has NO sex scenes in her guise as an erstwhile hooker, she exudes more erotic appeal than Ivanisin manages during the entire running time of SLOVENIAN GIRL.
SivakumarBalachandran
A call girl is a slow moody emotional disturbing kind of films.First thing is that the direction of the movie is so good. the story flows naturally the screen play has no cinematic experience in it. The whole essence of the movie is contained with a story of a girl who sells herself to live normally.....the lead role by the girl was so real and natural which makes you feel for her.The film has got so much day to day things of an authentic Slovenian life in it which gets you into it. The girl is so perfect for the role her mannerisms makes the viewer feel for her,like she usually lights up a cigar scratching it with her tongue and lips which has been maintained in the entire movie.Overall it is a story so natural without cinematic twist and turn endings.Natural star cast.The movie is Quite normal and moving.I would give 8 on 10.
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