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A Serbian Film

A Serbian Film

2010
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 44m
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
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A Serbian Film

2010
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 44m
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Rated 29 Jan 2013
40
6th
Pathetic attempt to scandalize - might be shocking if this is your first movie, but if you are already dulled by other crappy films, it's mostly boring, ludicrous and too comical to have any impact.
Rated 12 Feb 2011
10
4th
The irony of A Serbian Film is that it is about a filmmaker who makes depraved exploitation cinema and tries to pass it off as art, but director Srdjan Spasojevic is doing just that. For viewers versed in extreme cinema, it is actually not at all shocking. What sets it apart is in fact the stark contrast between its pretense to be serious commentary and the degree of melodrama and cliche it relies on, including a Bond-style villain who likes making evil speeches and an all-gorgeous female cast.
Rated 23 Aug 2011
5
0th
Oh, so Serbia is like being raped by your dad and then he puts his dick in some guy's eye socket killing him. Huh, I never would've put that together.
Rated 16 May 2011
65
43rd
It's well shot and acted. Don't know if I buy into all this allegory stuff. For now I'd say it's pretty silly, and occasionally downright hilarious in its outrageousness, but it has a sufficiently nasty streak through it to make an impression. For those who like extreme violence it's a must see, and needless to say if you're easily offended stay well clear. For me though it's not in the same league as 'Irreversible' in terms of being disturbing. That film has stayed with me. I doubt this will.
Rated 11 Feb 2011
99
99th
I asked the staff to add it and I'm the first to review it. Well let me be clear: it's the best film of the decade, propably the best film of the last 30 years, and definetly the best cinematographical social critiqe ever. Profound insights on the nature of the late-capitalist society. Great intertextual references to other films (like 2001 and Matrix). Casual crowd not usually exposed to transgressive fiction and subversive critique will see nothing but a shock flick in it. Well fuck them.
Rated 01 Apr 2012
6
32nd
The film as a whole wasn't nearly as bad as it was portrayed, but on the other hand "that one scene" is pretty damn wince-inducing. Everything else is predictable.
Rated 28 Feb 2020
55
11th
"A Serbian Film" supposedly has a political message that may be lost on audiences outside Serbia, but I have my doubts that the message even landed in its titular country. But even so, it shares every strand of its DNA with Cat III HK films of the 80's and 90's, only with all the fun sucked out and replaced with drug induced child rape.
Rated 20 Sep 2012
40
7th
It's so ridiculous that it's almost comical, so it really isn't as disturbing as it wants to be. As a social critique of a consumer-driven culture gone off the deep end, it fails because it's just too ludicrous. That being said, it was fairly well made
Rated 01 May 2011
40
27th
Ha, ha, ha - he kills a guy with his dick.. Come on, that's hillarious! 20 points for the line "Milos, can it be that you don't understand? It's a new genre; Newborn-porn.."
Rated 16 Feb 2011
40
15th
Hey, it's finally on Criticker! Disgusting but well-made and crazy/unpredictable (in terms of extremes it will go to) enough that you can't look away even though you know you probably should just turn it off. Most disturbing is how they go for violence-slapstick humor towards the end. Regarding its supposed "deepness" I dunno, I'll let more qualified people, i.e. Serbs I guess, determine that.
Rated 25 Dec 2011
45
10th
The plot and subject matter are too implausible and ridiculous to really be taken seriously. I found it quite interesting that it was backed by a studio designated Contra Film. It made me think that maybe the entire thing was just one big offensive trolling of the film industry. In many ways it was so explicitly stimulating that it began to seem like an example of counter-cinema, revealing the overtly explicit, hyperactive nature of modern film.
Rated 18 Aug 2011
30
1st
it's like Happy Tree Friends. with porn.
Rated 28 Apr 2011
24
17th
It starts off with an interesting plot but quickly goes bat-shit and into exploitation territory. I don't buy the director's explanation about it exploring deep social issues in Serbia. It seems like he just wanted to make a shocking movie and to push boundaries, at which he did succeed. That being said, the acting is good and it is actually a quite well made movie. Too bad that the violence is pushed to a level where it just becomes comical and grating.
Rated 28 Jul 2011
3
24th
It's penis-eye-gougingly good/bad.
Rated 25 Nov 2012
40
10th
Not a badly made pic but you come out of this movie feeling oily and gross. Highly disturbing subject matter.
Rated 20 Apr 2012
91
86th
It gets its high marks from me solely because (and was also one of the writer/director's main intents) it sticks a bloody cock in the skull of political correctness which has become all too ubiquitous on the current entertainment landscape. Also for some nice camerawork and cool music as well.
Rated 29 Sep 2017
15
1st
I guess this is supposed to have a "message" about contemporary Serbian politics, but I detected no insightful commentary or rich symbolism here. No, what I saw was cheap exploitation, an endless string of lurid sex and depraved violence aimed at upping the shock value, all culminating in a shallow and pointless orgy of grotesquerie. There is nothing pleasant or rewarding here.
Rated 26 May 2011
0
0th
I didn't think I still had a line until Srpski crossed it. This score isn't necessarily an indication of the quality of the film-making (although that's still up for debate). Rather, it refers to my lack of desire to ever watch this again. Ever.
Rated 17 Apr 2012
0
0th
Where to begin reviewing this? A Serbian Film is an exploitation film, and you, the viewers (if you watch it that is), are the exploited. For the most part it's a standard thriller, well produced and solid acting throughout, but there are four or five scenes which truly shock and disturb. One of these five (at about 55 minutes in) seems to have been thrown in there just to get people talking; it has no direct relevance to the story and you will wish you had never seen it.
Rated 22 Feb 2015
71
91st
Fucking stupid as hell if a mere shock film, too literal for any implicit, allegorical significance-- rather, it's much more interesting if taken to be a statement on the nature of pornography and of male violence, and especially their synonymity as an acute expression of contemporary capitalist society [which former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugo citizens now know only too well]. Also quite funny in a very dark way.
Rated 12 Sep 2016
0
0th
This is a movie that handles its own self-loathing with all the composure of a Budd Dwyer speech. I'd like to think that Spasojevic realized at some point that he was onto something spectacularly awful and just said 'fuck it' and decided to make the worst movie in history. But that would be awfully generous, because the more likely alternative is that surprise baby rape was actually the starting point, and this piece of shit movie was constructed around that.
Rated 13 Oct 2011
35
7th
I tire of my continued ambivalence toward films I am assured I will either love or hate. This is commentary like The Aristocrats is commentary. Admittedly the skullfuck must be seen to be believed, and the villain is kind of fun. And it's shot with an engaging sort of commercial panache that similarly high-concept grossouts like The Human Centipede lacked.
Rated 06 Dec 2012
18
4th
So, I suppose it's how liberal you like your allegory art as to whether you will appreciate the extreme sexual violence and exploitation on show here. The idea of being fucked by your government and/or art establishment as soon as you leave the womb is already a crass metaphor, but then to literally visually represent it, well..Could this have been a short film and had the same message?
Rated 16 Aug 2012
8
1st
Pretty worthless except for a few fun scenes, it lacks that underground feel that you'd want in these type of movies.
Rated 27 Apr 2011
100
99th
I could fill pages about the greatness of Spasojevic's masterpiece, but this movie can't be reviewed with just 400 characters so I just say one sentence: Look behind the violence and you will find a movie that's so much more than only a torture / rape porn! There is endless potencial in this movie and even more in the director. So I don't care if I'm the only one who think that this is god damn brilliant.
Rated 15 May 2012
1
0th
It gets a point for being well made. Honestly, though, it just tries too hard to be shocking and graphic in a world where that just isn't possible anymore.
Rated 21 Nov 2014
41
8th
I'd say it wasn't that bad or extreme if that final act didn't happen. But those last scenes.. I mean I could easily make an assumption that it's a social satire or a critism towards modern society. Really. Cause whole movie appearently tries to explore what society turned into. However, director ruins everything with the final act. It's so cheap, ridiculous and 'lets push the limits' that we can safely say he turned his very own movie to the thing he wanted to criticize in the first place.
Rated 21 Jan 2012
31
7th
It's simple and plain. I prefer ''honest violence'' such as Gaspar Noe does. Not provocation! The guy uses his dick as an instrument of murder. Hahahah And the plot twist at the end was ridiculous.
Rated 06 Dec 2011
83
94th
The Serbian government skullfucks the public. Apparently.
Rated 19 Oct 2015
0
4th
I wish i hadn't seen this.
Rated 14 Feb 2011
50
14th
if this movies's target discomfort.. the film's 100th out of 100 ..
Rated 13 Sep 2012
1
16th
Everyone knows suggestion functions better than full frontal gore. That is why I consider this film a failure.
Rated 28 Feb 2017
57
29th
Have struggled to review this because it's been years since I've seen it, but as I'm unlikely to ever watch it again, I'm having a go. In short it's an ambitious but difficult to endure film that seems to attempt to portray how the various political troubles in Serbia have metaphorically fucked it's people. Here, under the guise of a pornographic film shoot, the protagonist is manipulated to literally fuck various demographics of people. Very grim, but then so is the subject that inspired it.
Rated 28 Apr 2011
40
23rd
Trigger Warning: The Movie
Rated 06 Jan 2013
30
5th
Kiepski, na sile starajacy sie bulwersowac film, po za swoja kontrowersyjnoscia nie oferujacy niemal zupelnie nic.
Rated 03 Jan 2015
43
12th
It's well made I suppose and has it's goals in mind, but the sheer ridiculousness of some of it leaves it hard to take seriously.
Rated 04 Feb 2015
30
20th
pure serbian advertisement. however they cant convince me.
Rated 18 Jul 2013
1
4th
It seems to think it's saying something but it's really not. Nope. It's definitely funny, like in the sense that watching a grown man shit his pants is funny. My favorite scene was the opening sequence when the father's child stumbles across old porn footage of the father fucking a girl on a motorcycle. I lol'd.
Rated 24 Mar 2011
80
56th
Even before reading about why the director made this movie, I could sense a deeper meaning, which is huge for movies like this. It's definitely not something to watch more than once or a movie to show a romantic interest. A lot of people see it as over-the-top, unnecessary, or too much, but if you watch it, most of the disturbing stuff is implied instead of shown, making the effect much stronger. Most movies that try to shock you show you everything, this doesn't.
Rated 28 Jan 2013
40
12th
*yawn*. Now, it's pretty much a given at this point that someone out there jerked off to this thing. Please reach out, I have questions.
Rated 20 May 2013
60
33rd
Meczacy, dluzy sie, jest przesadnie chory, nawet jak na moja wypaczona psychike.
Rated 12 Feb 2018
22
1st
Oh look at me, and how smart and shocking my movie is. Except it neither shocking nor smart.
Rated 09 Oct 2014
71
59th
* Casting, Acting : 7 * Script : 6 * Directing, Aura : 7 * Ease of Viewing : 8 * Naked Eye : 7.5
Rated 01 Feb 2013
8
0th
A densely filled ultra-harrowing tale. The overwhelming nature of the film, the unique way in which the story is filmed and told and the directors analysis suggest a deeper meaning. Is it an artifical snuff porn, an intense look into the way in which psychologies can be moulded, a look at Serbia itself or just a sensless horror film?
Rated 04 Jul 2013
40
23rd
It gets points for the new-born porn scene. It doesn't know if it's supposed to be an absurd black comedy or serious indictment of Serbian atrocities
Rated 08 Feb 2012
77
54th
Second viewing (first viewing, 66). There's a deeply disturbing message in this movie, one that I'm not able to put into words - a condemnation of our times, but something more than this. The bad acting of the leading actor (on the other hand, the actor who plays the director is very good) and some ridiculous scenes hinder me to give a higher ranking, though.
Rated 16 Feb 2015
30
17th
A Serbian Film is vile, disgusting, exploitative, graphic, and not the type of film that most of the people who exist on this planet will want to see. If it interests you, start at the beginning and watch it all the way through so that you can understand the context in which we see all of its awful content. Maybe you'll be able to think on whether or not it actually has a purpose other than to shock. Most, like me, will want to get it out of their brain as soon as possible. And that's fine.
Rated 17 May 2014
24
0th
Saw,Blood Feast, we've seen it all before with blood and guts well this movie sets out to do more than that. With very little in terms of substance what we have is a movie that has one job to gross you out and disturb you. The premise is decent but with little to no development we get a story that is just there to carry the effects which at times go from meh to how is that even legal. I'v had movies shock me more even without the violence so this is an example of exploitation at it's worst.
Rated 26 Dec 2015
99
89th
Really WTF
Rated 02 Aug 2015
50
12th
iğrenç amk
Rated 01 Feb 2017
20
0th
A film for voyeurs who are desensitized by the internet. Besides the infamous scenes, it's really boring and just delays time, because apparently they didn't know how to fill the non-shocking parts.
Rated 22 Apr 2016
15
36th
waste of time
Rated 29 Apr 2013
85
44th
Newborn porn is what keeps this from being an AMAZING movie- It's just a bit unrealistic.
Rated 22 Dec 2013
29
28th
Well, I've never seen a new-born porn before... so that's a first.
Rated 27 Aug 2014
79
23rd
I would have given more, if not for the portrayal of new born scene. I dont care even if its just a movie. Coming to know a new kind of porn from this movie,which is only as disgusting as possible deserves no praise.
Rated 30 Mar 2013
62
25th
The biggest problem with this movie is how boring the first 45 minutes are. The plot is only mildly interesting. But once it gets going, it REALLY gets going. But believe it or not, the movie's not quite as shocking and disturbing as it wants to be. Don't get me wrong, the movie is fucked, but it doesn't create the kind of depressive dread that better films like In A Glass Cage or Irreversible are able to pull off. But still, the individual scenes are pretty damn effective.
Rated 18 Aug 2012
40
19th
Speechless.
Rated 02 Jan 2016
28
3rd
This is a try-hard film and it fails miserably.
Rated 10 Dec 2014
41
8th
Clearly a film that goes for shock factor but only succeeds in the most superficial way. I was mostly shocked by the blunt stupidity that undermined its intent both as a visceral "torure porn" experience and as some kind of social allegory. Mostly made me feel bad and baffled at how someone actually thought this was a good idea. I guess you can look at it as some kind of meta parable about violence in modern cultural context but that would just be unreasonably charitable towards the film itself.
Rated 28 Dec 2013
1
0th
So regret watching this... enough said.
Rated 05 Jan 2014
0
0th
I had once wanted to watch all films...but, this one persuaded me that some films just aren't worth your time. Please don't bother, even out of a perverse sense of curiosity to see what the hype is about.
Rated 13 Jul 2013
60
14th
An aging porn star (Srdjan Todorovic) is offered a lucrative salary by the mysterious Vukmir (Sergej Trifunovic) to appear in a film about which he is told nothing beforehand. Naturally, it turns out to a plumbing of the depths of depravity. The premise has potential, but the film as a whole is fairly flat and dull; some good direction and a solid performance by Trifunovic don't overcome the general lack of substance, and what should have been disturbing is merely unpleasant and predictable.
Rated 01 Dec 2013
65
75th
Certainly a step above '8mm'. Makes me want to make a movie called 'An Australian Film'. Really. To express my loathing. In any case, some people insist on seeing critical purpose at work in this ridiculous film; I am one of those people. Most of the others seem to be Serbian - as if to them the relationship of the film to the undercurrents of actual present-day Serbia is much more obvious. (As it is to those of Australia, obviously.)
Rated 25 Feb 2013
60
41st
Fuc*ing disturbing movie!
Rated 25 Mar 2011
95
66th
Muy buena película para(nota:no coman nada mientras lo ven...es enserio)disfrutar del enfermo show de sexo-gore y brutalidad al palo(chisteee) Técnicamente es muy buena, la mayoría de las escenas jodidas están bien logradas, realmente son muy chocantes pero bastante cuidadas. Narrativamente se va al carajo!(en el buen sentido)si bien durante el desarrollo es un poco confuso por el orden de las escenas, logra mantenerte al borde asiento. Una de las mejores que vi en meses. No apto para sensibles.
Rated 24 Oct 2015
42
7th
I don't think I've ever seen a film shit the bed quite like this one. For the first hour the film makes interesting observations about society's obsessions with sex and violence. It alludes to classics like "Rear Window", "Vertigo", and "Peeping Tom" in that it forces the audience to be voyeurs and accomplices. But once that hour mark hits the film takes a 180° turn by taking away the agency of the main character, therefore sucking any meaning out and turning into pure value. A disappointment.
Rated 27 Oct 2012
1
6th
The intelligence with which it deploys its "provocative" imagery is tenuous. As a statement, it could've been over within 10 minutes. As an experience? Maybe it has affect for someone with a softer stomach. But why would they watch this film?
Rated 28 Jul 2016
23
10th
When you read a detailed description of the plot, you think it's someone trying to outdo "The Human Centipede" in the gross-out department. But no, The first two-thirds have a naive tone that's almost sweet. And when the atrocities kick in, they are so over-the-top and ridiculous, there's nothing dark or visceral about them at all. It's impossible to take them least bit seriously. Speaking of which... this flick seems intended as a metaphor for Serbia itself (seriously).
Rated 15 Sep 2011
35
5th
I'm not sure how to rate this. As an exploitation film, it's great. Yet, my inner conflict comes from the fact that the film actually attempts to be more than that, as stated by Spasojevic in numerous interviews. Solely because of this, I have no recourse but to rate it on the merits of being a 'good' piece of cinema--in which it ultimately fails.
Rated 21 Apr 2011
90
98th
...and a nice mind-fuck, too. http://circabuffet.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/movie-review-srpski-film/
Rated 01 Feb 2012
0
0th
Why does this film make you watch it? Who the fuck makes this shit? Only for people not wired right. Too fucked up, even for me.
Rated 20 Feb 2018
72
3rd
Probably one of the most shocking and disgusting films of all time. DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU ARE A SENSITIVE PERSON.
Rated 05 Sep 2023
50
23rd
... the aristocrats! I wish I hadn't watched this film, but s'pose that some scale of the reality of human depravity has been widened because of it - and I'm talking about the depravity of the people who chose to make this film, fund it, distribute it, etc - any of them could have said no. Those people are themselves the subjects, content, authors and distributors of the film and it's 'useful', if sickening, to know that they exist. Don't watch this film.
Rated 29 Apr 2018
62
77th
If you forget few disturbing scenes this is good movie. Well acted and shot. Very good thriller/horror, just remember there some extreme scenes here.
Rated 08 Jan 2020
0
1st
NOPE!!!
Rated 09 Mar 2020
0
0th
Everyone should see this movie once, just before they die, as a reassurance that we all truly are just overgrown apes who don't matter.
Rated 07 Jul 2019
70
75th
This is a film that I'll never be able to say I like but it succeeds in it's aim of being a controversial film. The acting, while a bit off, is really good, the camera work is good, the music is god awful. Okay so this movie was extremely hyped up, not for being good, but for being fucked up, and you know what nothing shown is truly that fucked up. Now what is implied is fucked up and definitely disgusting but otherwise Salo & Caligula took things much further.
Rated 09 Aug 2019
40
36th
watchable
Rated 10 Feb 2019
9
4th
:||
Rated 15 Oct 2020
0
0th
Zero redeeming qualities...
Rated 22 Feb 2023
28
2nd
Tedious and monotonous wander into the “shock” cinema arena loses any of its impact by an oddly clunky film-making style – try an experiment: describing the most vile and ugly moments in this to a third party will actually create more shock and horror than watching the events themselves. Uneven performances and a flat, TVM visual aesthetic don’t help matters; nihilistic finale might be sadder if there was any level of emotional investment here at all.
Rated 15 Jul 2023
60
17th
Acting & Casting - 9/15 Presentation and Development of Characters - 8/15 Story and Story Presentation - 5/15 Visual Quality - 7/10 Creativity - 2/5 Execution - 6/10 Pacing and Lenght - 3/5 Music and Theme - 4/5 Sound and Visual Quality, Cinematography - 8/10 Directing - 8/10
Rated 19 Sep 2023
10
1st
Yikes.
Rated 17 Dec 2023
30
16th
I admire this film's desperate attempts at shock value, and maybe there's an argument to be made for its validity as a critique or showcase of whatever underground porno business may or may not exist around where the movie was made, but... yeah, at its core, it's an interminable sequence of progressively worse shock scenes, so there really isn't much to truly appreciate in it as part of the cinema craft.

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