Ante Tomić — Playwright (4)

Movie

It All Ends Here (2024)
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other title: Svemu dodje kraj / 灰飞烟灭 …
Maks is a brilliant lawyer who has been serving for years one of Croatia’s most powerful and ruthless businessmen, who made his fortune in the aftermath of the Balkan War. Maks’ latest service has been to have his client declared innocent of the murder of two of his workers for acting in self-defense. But the sudden appearance of a former girlfriend triggers a crisis of conscience in Maks, leading him to confront his employer and risk his life by uncovering a dense network of corruption at the highest level involving all branches of the State.

Movie

What Is a Man Without a Mustache (2005)
Sto je muskarac bez brkova WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Hrvoje Hribar actor: 泽琳卡·切维特西克 / 莱昂·鲁塞夫 …
other title: 一个没有胡子的男人会怎样? / Sto je muskarac bez brkova …
Description: A young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice. Quirks of fate give shape to "What Is a Man Without a Mustache?" This pleasant if inconsequential romantic comedy from the Croatian director Hrvoje Hribar is distinguished by its good-natured sensibility and rowdy, slightly fabulous tone: a kind of Eastern European magic realism, without the magic. One gray afternoon, high up in a city construction project, a man without a mustache loses his balance and falls, with an audible splat, to his death. He is survived by his wife, the lovely, impetuous Tatjana (Zrinka Cvitesic), who, under the influence of idiosyncratic mourning, uses the settlement money from his death to purchase the rural hillside where he first wooed her. This otherwise unprepossessing mound of dirt turns to gold when Tatjana is bought out by the developers of a highway project, and she sets herself up in a little grocery business, tooting around town in a red convertible. For reasons explained largely by the dictates of generalized whimsy, Tatjana falls in love with Father Stipan (Leon Lucev), the local priest. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the village, the impressionable young Julija (Jelena Lopatic) is falling in love with Stanislav (Bojan Navojec), a goofy environmentalist who composes haiku about sausage, despite the objections of her father (Ivo Gregurevic). Various confrontations, complications and farcical rendezvous ensue, all of which come to a head with the arrival of Father Stipan's twin brother, an army officer played, in fake mustache, by Mr. Lucev. The Croatian context lends a certain novelty to these contrivances, and the pleasant pointless of it all is laced with a tantalizing tease of allegory suggested by the dialectical twins and the strain of mellow nationalism in the dialogue.

Movie

生命的情人 (2010)
Neka ostane medju nama Douban
拉伊科·格尔利奇 actor: 米基·马诺伊洛维奇 / 博扬·纳沃杰克 …
other title: Neka ostane medju nama / 亲子与精子(台) …
一对中年兄弟在父亲的葬礼当晚相约喝酒,酒酣耳热之际两人互相抬杠,朦胧间却铸下大错,酒醒后两人安稳地回到各自的现实生活。 大哥事业有成,家庭看似甜蜜无忧,不料却是劈腿惯犯。弟弟是不太有钱的教授,早被老婆扫地出门,女儿对他则爱理不理,虽然状况凄惨却还是试图挽回前妻的心…… 看似稳固的家庭也许都有不可告人的秘密,本片以不同的角色观点,描述一个潜藏于众人内心不足为外人道的心事?害怕热情退却的男人永远在床第之间追寻幸福… 导演以独特旁观者手法描绘着当代社会的寂寞空虚,都会人性寂寞的社会写实电影真实上演着…

Movie

The Constitution (2016)
Ustav Republike Hrvatske WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.1 26 ratings
拉伊科·格尔利奇 actor: 内博伊沙·格洛戈瓦茨 / 德扬·阿西莫维奇 …
other title: 克罗地亚宪法 / Ustav Republike Hrvatske …
Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.