Clip (2012)

What can we say about this movie? From a country that was huge cinema- titan back in the day (60s-70s) Serbian cinema is reduced to this?

Majority of this movie is pretty bad. First of all, it's really boring. 100 min movie tend to drag itself and it looked like it was 5h long. There's no plot. My apologies to directorwriter of this movie, but you're not a "smart" writer if you leave plot shallow as this one and just decide to throw in bunch of explicit sex scene to shock your audiences. All it does is make your "story" more shallow. There's no real message in this movie except "teen girls of modern Serbia are idiots".

Next, we come to settings. There are like two sets in this flick. Girls house, and one other building that was used pretty much for everything (School, hospital, classroom, other girlsguys apartments). I swear, I lost track of time and space watching this movie. Every set looks way to similar.

Characters: None of the characters are interesting. They are all pretty shallow and undeveloped. Director tried to make some sympathies for lead character buy throwing (unnecessary) subplot of girl's sick father, but everything pretty much falls on it's back since by the time that happens (somewhere at the end of the movie), lead character pretty much ruins every part of her life that you have zero sympathies for her and you really don't care what happens to her next.

on the positive side, acting was surprisingly good for bunch of unknown actorsactresses. Lead actress Isidora Simijonovic was pretty good, it's not her problem that script and the other aspects of the movie are horrible. She did a descent job for a unknown actress and some scenes would be even worse if it wasn't for her acting skills. She's also pretty (which is never a bad thing). Support cast of older actors are also good. Sadly, we would probably never heard of her again, which is a shame.

Some direction and editing were nicely spliced. There's noting outstanding, but basic textbook direction was fine. Now, the scenes themselves are not very interesting. Clips from girl's life are not very interesting and sex scenes themselves were not all that shocking at all (they were just explicit in terms of what's seen on screen, porn-like).

In the end, sadly, it's just another one of "sh(l)ock" movies from Serbia.

my main question is, how the heck did this got financed by Serbian Ministry of Culture? Did they even read a script? Maybe it was connection that worked behind the scenes, who knows?

Fmovies: the main premise of the movie is to give a brutal insight into the everyday life of the Serbian youth through the eyes of a coming-of-age girl entering the adult (sex) life.

there is not much of a plot, and development of the characters is shallow. it seems that the main concern for the author is to shock and provoke the audience through the scenes of underage explicit eroticism. it's a shame the move hasn't went further with the story, and stops the half way compared to the likes of "kids (1995)". it more follows the pattern of the recent series of Serbian movies: "a Serbian movie", "the life and death of a porno gang"...

I wanted to write this review after reading some of reviews of other people here. I deeply feel that is not easy to empathize with movie and situation Jasna is and although storyline isn't complicated (it is rather straightforward) the message movie is carrying is still here and it is very loud. Once you can immerse into the lives of girls and boys in the movie and empathize with them message is actually overwhelming. I feel that Maja Miloš made one of the best Serbian movies ever (and I watched most of them). Director was able to deeply understand our troubled society and how young people is adapting (or at least trying to) to its surroundings. Isidora gave flawless role and very special touch to the whole movie (I guess that she had good insight in the life of the people at her age). Maja, Isidora, Vukašin and all others involved into this movie I wish to congratulate you and just hope that Serbian cinema can find the strength to follow breakthrough this movie made in socially engaged cinema genre in Serbia.

Clip fmovies. As opposed to scores that you see, this film is a great piece of cinema.

I guess that such a low scoring may be a result of two kinds of misunderstanding. First being the lack of knowledge, or lack of interest in Serbian mass-culture after the fall of the Berlin wall. Second, more profound one, could be being caught in the whirlpool of that culture, and not seeing it for what it really is.

Although tempted, I will say nothing more, in order not to spoil your viewing.

You should see this film. I delayed it for a long time, but when I finally saw it, I was very much thrilled.

Definitely underrated film. The scenes are purposely so visual and bizarre so you can literally feel everything that is wrong with our society and human nature in general. Sex, drugs, alcohol and disgraceful behaviour is nothing new. This film is teaching you everything you can change about yourself and what not to become if ever tempted.

I've already watched a couple of movies about crazy teenagers (Thirteen, The Babysitters, series Skins) but this is probably most explicit and closest to me because come from a similar environment. I especially liked the music, Folk Music has never sounded good like in this film, according to that put the right thing in the right place. Young actors have done a super job and the director for whom I've never heard before had done excellent mix between footage from a mobile device and movie camera, I was not so painful to watch as usually After I've seen the Serbian movie and "ÂŽivot i smrt porno bande" which gave me nightmares I was a little scared of the new Serbian Brutale but still not even close that hardcore though the very real and tragic.