Half-Life
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Directed by:
Vlado FischerScreenplay:
Viliam KlimáčekCinematography:
Ivan FintaComposer:
Oskar RózsaCast:
Ján Kroner ml., Klára Pollertová-Trojanová, Iva Janžurová, Táňa Pauhofová, Diana Mórová, Matej Landl, Slávka Halčáková, Marek Geišberg, Ady Hajdu (more)Plots(1)
Forty-something Viktor, a man in “the worst years”, accidentally saves a young woman from committing a suicide. It turns out that Mia studies photography and it’s possible that she didn’t really want to end her life. Maybe she just wanted to take a photograph of herself in the waves of the Danube. Viktor falls in love with her while his wife Karla seeks consolation in alcohol, her friend – a gynecologist and a spiritual healer. Viktor gets more and more entangled in the web of the uneven relationship with the girl. And his lost youth is nowhere in sight... A tragicomedy set in a modern city, Halflife is about the disintegration of relationships, the decomposition of life securities, the breakdown of a marriage and maybe also the disappearance of good manners from our lives. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (1)
There could be a lot of doubt about whether those forty-somethings are sympathetic and successful, just as there could be doubts about the quality of this tragicomic romantic film. However, I don't regret the time I spent on it, even though it slipped into the depths of awkwardness several times. Watching it, one realizes how incredibly petty we sometimes are and how we can cling senselessly to absolute bullshit that is in part linked to the current strange functioning of society. (50%)
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