A Trip (2011) User Reviews

Three old school friends a few years after high school reunite for a road trip down memory lane, find themselves at a crossroads.

[fidelio4 · 6 October 2011]

A Trip takes you on a soulful journey of three best friends who reunite after high school, only to find the past is not so past. A Trip is a compelling drama, very well acted and beautifully shot. It's fresh, true independent cinema. The film takes you on a journey with characters that you might not relate with at first but as you learn who they are you will realize how much you have in common. When we first meet Ziva, Gregor and Andrej it seems like they regressed back to their teen maturity but as they make their journey we learn their lives haven't been so simple and that they are really young mature adults. It's the type of film that if you invest in the story you'll be rewarded in the end. I highly recommend that you take A Trip.

One of the best slovenian movies

[majaa-gorjanc · 10/10 · 31 December 2011]

I have seen "A Trip" on this year's LIFFE festival in Ljubljana and was more then pleasantly surprised. While your average slovenian film is not bad, it certainly isn't something as surprising and fresh as A Trip. The actors are amazing at portraying a wide range of emotions, the direction is on point and the locations are truly beautiful. While filming on location in Slovenia is usually a quick way to audience's hearts, for slovenians love to see the beauty of their country on the big screen, A Trip uses locations a a gorgeous background, not the cornerstone of a story. The story itself, while a simple one, touches a viewer's heart in an unpretentious way, it's fun, while being touching and real. It's very easy to identify with it, no matter what part of the world you come from, for it is a discerning portrayal of youth's angst and disappointment about today's society.

A TRIP (2011) is a Slovenian road movie about three best friends, and untold secrets.

[mcmahonvanessa · 9/10 · 23 November 2011]

A TRIP (2011) is an experimental road movie about three best friends (Andrej, Gregor and Ziva) who reunite after a long time apart to take a road trip together through their native Slovenia. They have known each other for years and yet, during their trip, find out that none of them really knows each other. Since leaving school, each of them has gone their separate ways, far away from the idealism of youth to experience life's difficult and often iniquitous blows. While Andrej has had live in old world Solvenia as a homosexual, oftentimes discriminated against even to the point of abuse, Gregor has lived through war as a soldier and has partaken in the death of war's innocent collateral damage. Their beautiful female friend, Ziva, seems to have it all going for her on the outside- she's attractive, smart, lovable and Gregor clearly has a repressed passion for her- but there is something beneath the surface that she has never revealed to either of them, a dark secret that begins boiling to the surface the longer she suppresses it.

In the beginning of the trip, it is all laughs and excitement, but the further they go out on the road, the further they go into themselves and reveal the darker, more interior trip within. A TRIP is a tender, yet agonizing coming-of-age drama about friendship, love and finding oneself; the trying and heartbreaking journey we must all take to merit all three.

written by Vanessa McMahon, November 22, 2011

A pitch-perfect coming-of-age story

[cutnsplice · 9/10 · 28 October 2011]

Izlet (A Trip) follows three school friends who reunite to take a trip to the seaside to go camping, mess about, get high and pretend they're still carefree kids. But they're no longer kids, and the tensions and pressures of the transition to adulthood slowly emerge, putting pressure on the friendship. Unspoken secrets from the past rear their head, and a devastating revelation will force them to take the leap into what being a grown-up really means.

Nejc Gazvoda's directorial debut is a pitch-perfect observation of youthful angst, helped enormously by excellent performances from his three talented leads. Despite it being a very simple story, it is heart-wrenchingly moving, while always staying on the right side of sentimentality and using mordant humour to great effect. Watch it if you possibly can.