Tag: leonlucev

Toronto 2023 Review: WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL, Serbian Justice Served Slow And Absurd

Early in Mladen Djordjevic’s tragicomic satire, Working Class Goes To Hell, a young girl eats her lunch in the husk of a dead factory. A faded mural “Long Live Labour Day” peels off the burnt out walls above her. She...

Interview: MURINA Director Antonela Alamat Kusijanović on Her Complex Character Piece

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature, Murina, is set on a Croatian island, where the adolescent protagonist Julija (Gracija Filipovic) usually fishes underwater with her father Ante (Leon Lucev). The fact that Julija usually observes the young people who have fun...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

There must be something in the water in Eastern Europe because they have been cranking out some of the most confrontational films in the world for at least the last 40 years. The first major movement to get any kind...

Croatia's VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL Shocks And Provokes

Laced with explicit sex, late term abortions and animal violence Branko Schmidt's new Croatian effort Vegetarian Cannibal may very well be this year's A Serbian Film in terms of its willingness to push hot button topics to the extreme in...