The sole woman among the leads is the cause of all conflict, while Milan's father and best friend accept his gay affair with equanimity.įine mrtve djevojke (Fine Dead Girls) 2002 Though firmly anti-Serb and anti-war, the film reads as ultimately misogynistic. In Fine Dead Girls Iva and Marija move into an apartment building that is home to a rogues' gallery of characters: a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, a prostitute paid to break up the couple by a priest who is one girl's father, a homophobic gorgon of an apartment manager, and her son, a slacker mama's boy who rapes one of the pair to prove his masculinity. The film takes aim at the brutality and amorality of contemporary Croatian society, targeting patriarchy, nationalism, and the Catholic Church, as well as homophobia. WIKTOR GRODECKI'S CZECH HUSTLER DOCUMENTARIES: It obviously struck a chord, becoming the audience favorite at the Pula festival in '02 as well as Croatia's nominee for an Oscar the following year.
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