She Shame: Milos’ Debut a Frank Dichotomy of Sexual Exploration/Degradation
Another notable entry in a quickly growing slew of controversial titles coming out of Serbia is Clip, the directorial debut of Maja Milos. The highly factious subject matter of her film seems to be in keeping with the country’s current cinematic tradition, giving us confidentially unpalatable narratives and images that force us to experience current social climates as well as witness the disturbances still being processed by a recent and terrifyingly horrific past. Sexual exploration is a tricky subject matter on film, often heavily stylized to meet Western ideologies of either a mainstream or an arthouse aesthethic, and more often not, tends to be unsettling and uncomfortable. The same cannot be said of Milos’ debut, an antagonistic feature, one that needles and more often than not, disturbs.
Jasna (Isidora Simijonovic), an overall ordinary teenage girl in the less...
Another notable entry in a quickly growing slew of controversial titles coming out of Serbia is Clip, the directorial debut of Maja Milos. The highly factious subject matter of her film seems to be in keeping with the country’s current cinematic tradition, giving us confidentially unpalatable narratives and images that force us to experience current social climates as well as witness the disturbances still being processed by a recent and terrifyingly horrific past. Sexual exploration is a tricky subject matter on film, often heavily stylized to meet Western ideologies of either a mainstream or an arthouse aesthethic, and more often not, tends to be unsettling and uncomfortable. The same cannot be said of Milos’ debut, an antagonistic feature, one that needles and more often than not, disturbs.
Jasna (Isidora Simijonovic), an overall ordinary teenage girl in the less...
- 11/3/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
★★★☆☆ With several awards scooped on its festival travels thus far - including a Tiger Award in Rotterdam - and having being banned in Russia, Serbian drama Clip (Klip, 2012) now arrives at the London Film Festival. The feature debut, both as writer and director, of actress Maja Milŏs, the film is a gritty and sexually explicit exploration of the volatility of modern youth in Belgrade. Following the exploits of a teenage girl, Jansa (14-year-old Isodora Simijonovic), the film takes in the social comings and goings of a group of teenagers in modern Serbia as our protagonist desperately tries to seduce and eventually become the girlfriend of a slightly older local bully, Djole (Vukasin Jasnic).
Read more »...
Read more »...
- 10/13/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.