In focus

Russian Flesh

The author begins by placing the reviewed film in a wider context of Croatian film production of the nineties and than proceeds to analyse it. Russian meat is a film of great stylistic dispersion, but the director and scriptwriter Lukas Nola, thanks to his exquisite talent for directing, easily makes up for possible inadequacies, composing a compact structure out of scattered elements.

One of the significant traits of the film is also Nola’s playfulness because of which he could be viewed in the context of the authors such as Godard, Almodovar, Luna, Tarantino and Rodriguez, although Croatian film did not yet achieve such a high degree of creative eccentricity and freedom.

Damir Radić