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Dirty Movie

1989 · 79 min

A playful, self-aware collage that blurs documentary and fiction, demanding attention as it reflects on filmmaking and reality.

Directed by
Dušan Sabo
Genres
Drama
Starring
Dušan Sabo, Radoslav Pavlović, Jasna Beri
Overview
A tale of dirty filmmakers' job, constructed in the form of collage consisting of authentic events, movie document, while also being an experiment. In the movie, real writer Radoslav Pavlovic and film director Dusan Sabo play themselves as other people, and others as themselves. They're trying to make a film about Kosovo... Cinema observed as parallel life. At the same time, it is homage to French New Wave classic "Breathless" by Jean-Luc Godard.

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Directed by
Dušan Sabo
Genres
Drama
Starring
Dušan Sabo, Radoslav Pavlović, Jasna Beri
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • politics
  • media
  • memory
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • mockumentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour4
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Dušan Sabo
Written by
Dušan Sabo, Radoslav Pavlović
Starring
Dušan Sabo, Radoslav Pavlović, Jasna Beri, Mirjana Deak, Aleksandar Micić, Ljuba Tadić, Dragan Jovičić, Irina Dobnik
Runtime
79 min
Country
Yugoslavia
Languages
Serbo-Croatian

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