A Serbian Film is a 2010 arthouse film shot, set, and allegorical of life in Serbia, directed by Srđan Spasojević. It is about Miloš, a porn star who is hired for a new film project and kept in the dark about its true nature... because he wouldn't have agreed otherwise.
(April 2017) A Serbian Film (Serbian: Српски филм / Srpski film) is a 2010 Serbian exploitation horror-thriller film produced and directed by Srđan Spasojević in his feature film debut. Spasojević also co-wrote the film with Aleksandar Radivojević.
6/10 'A Serbian Film' from an academical point of view I've written a book and some articles about film censorship, so given the controversy looming around this particular film, and its highly interesting release history in the UK (read wikipedia for more), I got my hands on a pre-release uncensored copy.
Similarly, Radivojević dismisses Serbian cinema as "pathetic state-financed films made by people who have no sense or connection to film, but are strongly supported by foreign arts council funds", while adding: "Film quality is of no concern to them, only the bureaucratic upholding of the rule book on political correctness."
The film has been banned in several countries including the Philippines, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia,, and Norway, and was temporarily banned from screening in Brazil....A Serbian FilmRunning time104 minutesCountrySerbiaLanguagesSerbian Swedish EnglishBox office$1,550 (Brazil)11 more rows
It's one of the few films banned in the country since Ichi the Killer (2001) and Grotesque (2009). As of 2016, only a few countries have issued a rating for the uncut film. Others have required substantial cuts or banned the film altogether.
Like most “torture porns,” A Serbian Film isn't so much scary as it is disgusting. Every frame is repulsive. Thus, while it is certainly desensitizing, the film also works to make violence against women and children as terrifying and disgusting as possible.
What you see on screen, of course, is quite clearly staged, including the sex, but the director and actors do their best to make it seem anything but. It is important here to briefly discuss the technical filmmaking behind A Serbian Film. In short, everything is excellent.
We end Banned Horror Film Week with 2010's A SERBIAN FILM: arguably the most infamous, notorious, and controversial film of all time. The film has been banned in at least 46 countries, and only a few of them, including the UK, issued a rating to the uncut film.
NC-17 (No One Seventeen and Under Admitted) is the highest rating in Motion Picture Association film rating system assigned to films with content the MPA finds to be only suitable for ages 18 and older.
Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
An ageing porn star agrees to participate in an art film in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a paedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.A Serbian Film / Film synopsis
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A Serbian Film is about an aging porn star who agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film. The story of the film is handle sloppily disregarding common sense.
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A Serbian Film seems to have more in mind than it conveys on the outer surface. But it remains effective, one gruesome way or another.
There exists a hard, bitter audience for the likes of A Serbian Film, one of the most graphic depictions of human suffering I have ever seen committed to the screen. I am not among them.
Tropes used in A Serbian Film include: A Date with Rosie Palms: After being rebuffed by his sister in-law, Marko goes to the washroom to jerk off, something made even creepier when it starts randomly cutting to Miloš's son eating an ice cream cone. Ambiguously Gay: Vukmir.
Crapsack World: The film's setting, and according to itself, Serbia as a whole.
Ruritania: How the film treats Serbia as a whole. And it is not Played For Laughs at all.
A Serbian Film is vile, disgusting, exploitative, graphic, and not the type of film that most of the people who exist on this planet will want to see.
About the only genuinely good element – the one which will have almost everyone applaud, even if the rest of the film repulses them – is the acting from Srdan Todorovic and Sergej Trifunovic. As Milos, Srdan Todorovic is committed and wonderful, a truly great performance in a movie that didn’t deserve it. And Sergej Trifunovic is wickedly evil in the role as an “artist.” I keep putting quotes around that because, well, let’s just say that it’s a debatable claim.
A Serbian Film is vile, disgusting, exploitative, graphic, and not the type of film that most of the people who exist on this planet will want to see. If it interests you, start at the beginning and watch it all the way through so that you can understand the context in which we see all of its awful content. Maybe you’ll be able to think on whether or not it actually has a purpose other than to shock. Most, like me, will want to get it out of their brain as soon as possible. And that’s fine.