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OTHER
CRAP:
Catch
the deluxe
version of
Other Crap in
real time,
with all the
bells and
whistles, here.
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Dead
Europe
(2012)
Johnny's
comments:
How
'bout another new
Australian film?
Dead
Europe is a drama that
follows Issac (Ewen
Leslie), a photographer
who wants to go to
Greece to visit where
his parents came from.
His father does not want
him to go and after a
going away party, his
father dies in a car
accident, possibly by
suicide. This slightly
changes Issac's plans
and he decides to take
his father's ashes to
spread them in his home
village. This is against
his mother's blessings
and there seems to be a
major consternation
about Issac going to
Greece. He goes to
Greece and meets his
cousin Glulia (Danae
Skiadi from Hardcore,
loved watching that
ultra-depressing film on
SBS back in the day),
who offers to take him
to his father's village.
Before he goes, Issac is
interrupted during a gay
liasion by Josef (Kodi
Smit-McPhee), who has
been attacked. He helps
him home, but things are
strange. Josef says that
the woman at his home is
not his mother and he
wants Issac to take him
away from here. But,
after going home to get
more film, he comes back
and they seem to have
disappeared. Issac goes
to his father's village
and finds that his
family thinks he is
cursed because of
something his father
did. When he goes to
sprinkle his father's
ashes, he is warded off
doing so. After
receiving an email from
an old friend of his
father's, he goes to
Paris to meet him, but
it comes increasingly
clear that his father's
past is going to catch
up with him. And this
comes to a head when
Issac visits his long
lost brother Nico
(Marton Csokas) in
Budapest and sees the
shell of a man he has
become and Nico tells
him the truth of their
father and it will shake
Issac to his core.
Jesus, Australian
filmmakers love their
depressing stories and
Dead Europe is an
all-timer of depressing
shit happening. Mind
you, I do love a
depressing film. Based
on a novel from the
writer of The Slap and
reuniting star and
director from the
similar storied short
film Jewboy, Dead Europe
is a film that
predetermines it's
ending and it's just a
downward spiral to get
there. And a fair bit of
the film feels extremely
random and possibly with
stuff tacked on or
possibly taken out to
drag the film out to
barely 80 minutes. The
Paris segment didn't
need to be there at all.
This film ain't The
Slap, that's for sure
and is more a depressing
diversion than anything
substantial.
Da
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