Ognjen Svilicic 2010 Croatia
Starring: Maya Sansa, Bristol Pomeroy, Leon Lučev, Sylvia Kristel, Vicko Bilandzic
Pills, guns and estate agents...it all sounds so promising, or not as the case may be. In this case it's not, Svilicic's attempt at Journey To Italy less subtlety and more 'bad acting in the forest and yelling at sheep'. As workaholic American Peter, Bristol Pomeroy is particularly bad, aiming for injured male pride but never really getting past the awful dialogue he's been given. One of the main problems is that Peter and his wife never really seem like a married couple, you could sort of imagine them as boyfriend and girlfriend on their first disappointing holiday together but it's hard to believe they would have stayed together long enough to dislike each other as strongly as they do. After a short time Sylvia Kristel turns up quite randomly as a friendly religious zealot which at least brings a smile to your lips. For those who don't know I should point out that Kristal spent much of her career playing the legendary softcore porn character Emmanuelle. This role features more clothes but is far less interesting. Elsewhere, there are a couple of funny lines amid the shots at tension, most of them from Leon Lučev's manly hunter Stipe, and the blurring of morality late in the film is appealing but that's about as good as things gets. The ending is an insult, cut off as it is before there's any real conclusion. It might just be me but if I've spent an hour and a half watching a marriage implode I want to know if it actually does. What I don't want is a fade out into some pleasant music. I don't know if Ognjen Svilicic is reading this (I quite vainly hope so) but if he is all I have to say is 'Ognjen, you're a lazy fucker'.
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