{"id":486587,"date":"2022-08-19T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-safe-place-review-a-shattering-debut-feature-from-croatia\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T06:57:11","slug":"watch-safe-place-review-a-shattering-debut-feature-from-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-safe-place-review-a-shattering-debut-feature-from-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Safe Place&#8217; Review: A Shattering Debut Feature From Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df381a0fce\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df381a0fce\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-safe-place-review-a-shattering-debut-feature-from-croatia\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Safe_Place_Review_A_Shattering_Debut_Feature_From_Croatia%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Safe Place&#8217; Review: A Shattering Debut Feature From Croatia&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-safe-place-review-a-shattering-debut-feature-from-croatia\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Safe_Place_Review_A_Shattering_Debut_Feature_From_Croatia%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Safe Place&#8217; Review: A Shattering Debut Feature From Croatia&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Safe_Place_Review_A_Shattering_Debut_Feature_From_Croatia%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Safe Place&#8217; Review: A Shattering Debut Feature From Croatia&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Safe_Place_Review_A_Shattering_Debut_Feature_From_Croatia%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Safe Place&#8217; Review: A Shattering Debut Feature From Croatia&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        About halfway through \u201cSafe Place,\u201d a film already not given to taking it easy on viewers\u2019 emotions, the meek, honest delivery of a single word \u2014 \u201cSorry\u201d \u2014 shatters the heart irreparably into a million small shards. It comes from Damir (Goran Markovi\u0107), a quiet, bearish but child-eyed man who has just attempted to take his own life. His stunned, protective brother Bruno (Juraj Leroti\u0107) won\u2019t hear of any such apologies, but still that plaintive \u201csorry\u201d hangs between them, perhaps standing in for several unexplained factors from the past, perhaps covering further devastations to come. Every small word and gesture counts for a lot in Croatian multihyphenate Leroti\u0107\u2019s sparse, still, tender-as-a-bruise debut feature: Any bigger ones might throw a severely delicate situation off-balance.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, one would advise a first-time writer-director not to further burden themselves with a leading onscreen role in their freshman effort, least of all if they\u2019re not a seasoned actor themselves. But the rules for Leroti\u0107 \u2014 graduating to features 12 years after his short \u201cThen I See Tanja\u201d racked up some festival miles \u2014 are perhaps a little different. With \u201cSafe Place\u201d drawing directly on his own pained family history, and the director effectively playing himself in this autobiographical work, it\u2019s easy to see why one might find a certain security in taking as hands-on an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach as possible to such fragile material. Either way, the gamble has paid off: Fresh from winning three awards at Locarno, including the best first feature prize, the film now appears in the main competition at Sarajevo, with a long trail of further festival bookings surely ahead. Interest from discerning distributors, too, should raise the profile of \u201cSafe Place\u201d far above what is standard for Croatian cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Not content simply for abundant surges of feeling to carry his story across the line, Leroti\u0107 also tells it with remarkable formal rigor and economy \u2014 evident from his and DP Marko Brdar\u2019s exquisitely lit and composed establishing shot, which calmly takes in the everyday comings and goings of a drab Zagreb apartment building, before our eye is drawn to a man attempting to subvert the intercom entry system, his panic perceptible even in dusky long shot. It\u2019s Bruno, agitated after an alarming phone call from Damir. After breaking down the doors both to the building and to Damir\u2019s pad, his fears prove justified, as blood from his brother\u2019s self-inflicted wounds smears the walls. Damir is swiftly hospitalized; a bewildered Bruno is charged with answering startlingly unsympathetic questions from police and medical staff, when all he has is a surfeit of unresolved whys for his brother.<\/p>\n<p>While keeping the focus squarely and intimately on the family, Leroti\u0107\u2019s lean script draws some darkly comic blood from the inefficiencies and insensitivities of bureaucracy in response to such moments of acute personal crisis \u2014 there\u2019s a vein of mordant procedural satire that sets this otherwise universally resonant story firmly in a tradition of Balkan and Eastern European filmmaking. It\u2019s that callousness from above that spurs Bruno and his mother (Snje\u017eana Sinov\u010di\u0107 \u0160i\u0161kov) to make the hasty and possibly ill-considered decision to move Damir to the family home in Split, where the patient takes a turn for the worse, further endangering himself.<\/p>\n<p>By this point, however, this hitherto serenely naturalistic exercise has already pulled off one deft, disorienting reality tilt. It\u2019s a theatrical flourish that Leroti\u0107 and editor Marko Ferkovi\u0107 execute with deceptive, uninterrupted restraint, and a fillip between life and death that, though proceedings quickly switch back to the film\u2019s established world, thereafter places the brothers\u2019 tensely loving relationship on a fractured, uncertain footing. Brdar\u2019s elegant, precise framing frequently forces us to observe their interactions through open but obscuring doorways and windows that slice off slivers of their figures and expressions: Even when we share the room with them, deep pools of melting shadow can distance us from the full picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafe Place\u201d offers scant details about the principals\u2019 lives, loves or livelihoods outside this im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te present-tense tragedy, but the performances tacitly fill in a number of blank spaces. Markovi\u0107, who deservedly won best actor in Locarno\u2019s Cineasti del Presente competition, is quite astonishing as the infinitely wounded Damir, whose spare, strained, frequently whisper-soft dialogue reveals less of his torment than his sorrowful faraway gaze, his slow, clenched body language and his almost infant-like air of obligation to his brother. Bruno and his mother insist that Damir showed no signs of depression prior to a recent patch of \u201clow spirits,\u201d but as played with such bone-deep sadness by Markovi\u0107, that hardly seems possible. \u201cSafe Place\u201d invites its audience to consider how intuitive we are to the pain of those we hold closest, how attentively we\u2019re listening past what we like to hear, how safe we\u2019re actually making the private places we share.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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