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History of Love
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Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, the girl slowly immerses herself into a strange, almost dreamlike world. Sonja Prosenc’s movie is dominated by a distinctive poetic that attacks the viewer’s senses, as well as by a narratively loose style and an ability to construct a story with the aid of the subtlest of suggestions. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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Another artsy film that tackles the painful trauma of losing a loved one by forcing the audience to watch characters stare blankly into space or wander aimlessly through streets and nature. I have a huge problem with this approach; watching something like this for nearly two hours brings me nothing but tedious boredom and emptiness. I spend most of the film trying to connect with it, to get into it, but I usually fail — just like in this case. What makes it worse here are the slow dialogues, delivered with the same cadence as Barack Obama's speeches. A Love Story is a cold, impenetrable film that aims for a strong moment of catharsis that never arrives. It's well-shot but hard to connect with.
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