An actress on the verge of a nervous breakdown heads to her hometown on the banks of the Danube, a river separating her adopted country of Romania from the Serbia of her youth. Hoping to recover fr…
Mladenovic’s critically acclaimed debut, “Soldiers. Story from Ferentari,” world premiered in Toronto in 2017.described it as “a likably ramshackle, seemingly semi-improvised ‘free adaptation’” of Adrian Schiop’s semi-autobiographical novel about a gay romance in Bucharest’s Roma slum. Mladenovic spoke toabout the challenge of directing her family on screen, the slow progress of the Me Too movement in Eastern Europe, and the importance of making peace with the place where you were born.
Two years ago, during the post-production of my debut film, my hair started to fall out and I had epileptic attacks. But people around me kept saying that I was exaggerating, the medical analyses were good so it must be all in my head. So I went back to recover in my hometown, Kladovo, a small touristic town on the Danube river.
I don’t see it that way. In this film there are loads of quarrels, but there is also loads of love. Some sort of Balkan family gone wild. The mayor asks Ivana to be the face of the town’s music festival, but she doesn’t seem entirely at home in Kladovo, and we get the sense she doesn’t feel at home on either side of the Danube. You were born in Serbia but now live and work in Romania. How much has that experience of being in-between two worlds affected your work as a filmmaker?
My previous movie, “Soldiers,” was a bit hard to grasp for wider audiences, as the film deals with both homosexual and Roma themes. So there were comments ranging from sexist to racist and even violent. With this film, I hope things will be a little different.
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