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I Love You

I love You Museum of the Moving Image, Saturday, September 15, 6:00 p.m.

Director: Dalibor Matanic

Original Language Title: Volim te
Drama, 83 min., 2006
Production Company: HRT
Producer: Mario Oreskovic
Screenplay: Dalibor Matanic

Cast: Kresimir Mikic, Ivana Roscic, Zrinka Cvitesic, Ivana
Krizmanic, Natasa Janjic
Director of Photography: Branko Linta
Editor: Tomislav Pavlic
Music: Jura Ferina, Pavle Miholjevic

 

 


Synopsis:

Kreso has it all - youth, money, and a beautiful and successful girlfriend. He works as a copywriter in a big marketing agency. However, he has no time for his girlfriend and ultimately, leads a very unfulfilled existence, as do his close friends, who are obsessed with easy women, alcohol and drugs. One day, while drunk driving, he causes a car accident in which a woman gets killed. He subsequently discovers that he contracted AIDS trough blood transfusion after the accident and his life changes completely. He gets fired, his girlfriend leaves him, and his friends forget him...

Dalibor MatanicDirector's biography:

Dalibor Matanic
Dalibor Matanic was born on January 21st 1975 in Zagreb, Croatia. He studied film and TV directing on the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. His first feature "The Cashier Wants to go to the Seaside" (2000) won the award for the best Croatian newcomer director. "The Cashier" also won the national awards for the best supporting actress, the best European debut prize in Cottbus and the best actress award in Sochi. The film opened the New directors/ New films festival in New York at the Lincoln Center and had the best box-office result in Croatia. "The Drought" (2002) is the first of the six short films about the intimacy of six girls living in different parts of the world. "The Drought" won many national and international awards and was shown at Quinzaine des Realisateurs in Cannes 2003. In 2002 Dalibor made his second feature "Fine Dead Girls" about the suffocated lives of Zagreb citizens today. The film won seven prizes at the Croatian national Film festival (including Grand prix) and was selected as the Croatian candidate for the Academy award in category for the best foreign film. It was awarded by the Special jury award in Sochi and the Grand Prix by youth jury in Geneva. His third feature film "100 Minutes of Glory" deals with life of a deaf-mute woman painter who lived at the beginning of the 20th century. His film "I Love You" won so far three awards at the Pula Film Festival. Today, Dalibor prepares the new feature film "Mother of Asphalt". Dalibor Matanic received the City of Zagreb award and is a member of the European Film Academy.
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