Selection : 2022 feature films

Have You Seen This Woman?

Dusan Zoric / Matija Gluscevic

2022
Serbia / Croatia
1h19
Fiction
Col.
VOSTF-STA

In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.

Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević studied Film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. They directed several shorts: Dušan Love (Visions du Réel 2016) and Foreign Body (Orizzonti 2018); Matija the documentary Utopia (2016) and Loop (Locarno 2017). Have You Seen This Woman? is their debut feature. It premiered at the Settimana internazionale della critica in Venice.

 

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Cherchez la femme”: the opening scene of Dušan Zorić, Matija Gluščević first feature–a TV anchor investigates a woman's disappearance while her apartment is undergoing renovations–seems to be a direct answer to James Ellroy's sentence. While not seen, Draginja is really there, present and rooted in contemporary Serbia. As much a Picaresque odyssey in the depths of a gloomy reality, as a mental maze full of Lynchian fragrances, Have You Seen This Woman? uses surprise and reversal as its core principles. Reinvigorating with a daring strength and a ferocious humor the disappearance that inhabits contemporary cinema, the filmmakers by exploring the stations of Draginja's life, are secretly working on her appearance. And portrayed by Ksenija Marinković, this one has not finished imposing itself on our eyes.

Victor Bournérias

Cast
Ksenija Marinković, Isidora Simijonović, Boris Isaković, Alex Elektra, Ivana Vuković, Vlasta Velisavljević, Goran Bogdan, Jasna Đuričić, Radoje Čupić
Screenplay
Dušan Zorić, Matija Gluščević
Photography
Aleksa Radunović, Marko Kažić, Milica Drinić
Sound
Luka Gamulin
Music
Stipe Škokić – DJ Jock
Art direction
Iva Ilić, Milena Grošin
Editing
Olga Košarić
Production
Dinaridi films, Non-Aligned Films

CONTACT : 
Non-Aligned Films, Stefan Ivančić
sivancic@gmail.com 

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