2016 Directed by Nevio Marasović
Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. In the idyllic surroundings of snow-covered Gorski Kotar, the fiery personalities of the highlanders surface and collide.
Canada
Fantasia International Film Festival
Canada
I said it before, and I will say it again...I was never a big fan of Croatian movies! Mostly because 90% of Croatian cinema comes down to boring dramas about existence and war, and shitty comedies that are barely funny. Thankfully, from time to time, Croatian filmmakers make something that comes to my attention and gets me intrigued, and in the end, sets my ass to cinema. One of those movies was GORAN!
GORAN is interesting Croatian crime thriller drama with Scandinavian flavor. Its written by Norwegian writer Gjermund Gisvold, and is set in extremely snowy Gorski Kotar (that's a mountain part of Croatia), which greatly resembles Norway or Finland. But GORAN also has a lot in common with movies…
I watched about half the trailer for this and based off the poster and the description from Hulu which said a darkly comic twist of events I was sold on giving it a go. I would say avoid reading any more descriptions about this one if your interested. There are some good subtle character developments/surprises in the first half which is a bit slow and finding those out keeps it’s more interesting. Overall This was Excellent 🎉🎉🎉. First half is slow but once things start rolling it gets real bananas. There are some crazy twists, violence, a little dark comedy, awesome music cues, absurdity and chaos. It’s a good blend of thriller, drama and although that Hulu description sells it as a dark comedy ther only a couple of touches of that really, it’s more thriller/drama than anything...
I don’t know what films I would compare it too , maybe in order of disappearance or big bad wolves.
Goran is a taxi driver, has a lovely pretty wife and its his birthday plus the wife announces she's pregnant. Her family is kind of overbearing with Goran. He feels despondent, weirded out with everyone around him. Something terrible happens and the path before him gets darker, stranger and brutally violent. A nice surprise I stumbled into on Hulu. The end is nuts!
Uhm, uf, ahem, eh,,,, ja nez jel me ikad ijedan hr film OVOLIKO iznenadio i ostavio paf i bukvalno nakon gledanja sam sebi u bradu govorio VAU JEBOTE KOJI KURAC WOW O JEBEMTI!! Ocjena je mrvicu visoka i nategnuta pa ću krenut s manama koje ovaj film očito ima. Prva i najveća je da filmu treba gotovo polovica ukupnog trajanja da bi se stvari ekšli krenule događat, a kad se krenu događat, toliko se toga izdogađa da jednostavno fali još. Film traje niti sat i 20 minuta, ali zadnjih 20 minuta prođe tako jebeno brzo i stvarno je šteta da dosta filma prođe pokušavajući nekako settat podlogu klimaksu.
E, ta prva polovica stvarno sporo teče, ali ima masu finih pejzaža…
A tale of two halves where the first half takes the time to establish all the necessary and important character beats, and then the second half takes that and throws it into a whole lot of crazy with some nice twists and turns.
One of the performers is from the Fargo series, which might make it tempting to compare this to that brand of Dark Comedic fare. It's got a bit of that laden throughout, but it's also more dedicated to playing this straighter. There is more on the surface here rather than the subtext that makes Fargo so rich, which actually works in the context of this film's story. While the central character bears the name of the film's…
I tend to give foreign films higher ratings than Hollywood ones. Even for the same material. I prefer watching people from other countries dealing with their crap. This was a huge powder keg waiting to blast. So many unresolved issues just sitting there. The match was the announcement of the pregnancy. I'm just glad my father-in-law was a decent fellow.
I dont know what happens with my life that I end watchig croatian cine.
Its not typical to not watch occidentals films, and thats why this movie let me with a strange feeling, but I think its a powerful drama, with touch of black comedy and suspense,that explotes in the end. Im still shocking with the last 20 minutes
Honestly i wasn't expecting much... but wow... props to sound design, to camera operators, director, actors and everyone involved!
This should be in top 10 Croatian movies easy, it has some flaws but is still brave enough to be defferent in a country that never had a movie like this one.
It awesome, go wach it!
