Human Zoo or just hell?
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Human Zoo
France, 2008, 110 min
Director: Rie Rasmussen
Cast: Rie Rasmussen, Nikola Djuricko, Nick Corey
Section: Panorama
by Ole Skambraks
“Bonny and Clyde in Kosovo” is a proper label for the first feature film of the young Danish director Rie Rasmussen. It opened this years Panorama section and provoked a real uproar in the audience. Some burst out with laughter, others left the screening with disgust. Rassmussen announced the film as a “love story” but it turned out to be one not for the faint hearted. In the aftermath of the Kosovo war, Human Zoo shows
the chaotic relation of Adria (Rie Rasmussen), half Serb, half Albanian and the deserter Srdjan (Nicola Djuricko). Both flee out of the former Serbian part of Kosovo and take on a career as racketeers and arms dealer. A different narration shows Adria separated from Srdjan in Marseilles, where she is an illegal immigrant. Flashback sequences connect the two narrations and locations. Rassmussen makes the audience hop from Adria’s love quest in France to kosovar trauma and pain with a bit too much ease. She neither depicts an authentic way to come to terms with the war past, nor does she dress a psychological portrait of the characters. Adria is a freak, who knows how to survive by the means of violence. But what for? Rassmussen’s character doesn’t know the answer and does not search for it. And when this stylised Lady walks in high heels over piled cadavers we rather tend to think of “Human hell” than a “Human Zoo”.photo: Berlinale
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I saw 'Human Zoo" at the Berlin Film Festival and I like many others absolutely loved it and thought it to be a work of genius. Only time will tell. Of course you are also entitled to your opinion not that it matters any more than anyone else's, except that yours is filled with errors in observation and mistakes so it's worth less. At no point in the film ever does, as your wrote, "this stylised Lady walks in high heels over piled cadavers". On the contrary this was one of the most brilliant points in the story. We watch the character of Adria grow into a women and be drawn to the material things that make women feel good about themselves, clothes, shoes, etc. Then understanding that falling in love needs only a human interaction. Finally her male learned violence is used to save a girls life she specifically takes her high heel shoes off outside the brothel, because any idiot would know you can't run or fight in high heel! it's the entire plot point at the finale! Were you even watching or are you one of the angry people writing reviews because you can't write or direct films. Have fun in life. Lou
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