A retired porn star, leads a normal family life with his wife Maria and six-year old son Petar in tumultuous Serbia, when to participate in an 'art film' in order to make ends meet, he soon discovers that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
In its histrionic dream logic, the movie says as much about Eastern Europe as Twilight does about the Pacific Northwest. Frankly, you'd be better off self-abusing.
Fantastic performances from the two leads make for a very powerful film. It's truly a technical achievement on every count and while It may not be for everyone, if you can stomach it, watch it!
That the film exists at all is a more cogent commentary on the nation's collective trauma than any of the direct statements or potential metaphors contained within.
True to its state-of-the-nation title, Srdjan Spasojevic's "A Serbian Film" is an electrifying, ithyphallic allegory of a country bestialised, violated, commodified and sold - by its own - down the river
To compliment it as being well-crafted, which it is, doesn't mean much when it's unwatchable.
ColeSmithey.com
January 12, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] ...Spasojević invites the viewer to compare his made-up pornography of death to the similar underlying nature of capitalism's commercial cinema of the West and its attendant sponsors.
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.
A Serbian Film has a real point to be made. The sad thing is that it is lost on most people who will be offended to the point of dismissing the movie as trash.
