20th Annual European Union Film Festival
Screening Dates
  • December 1, 2017 6:30
Slovenia

“Haunted and haunting, atmospheric and absorbing.”

Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter

Acclaimed Slovenian auteur Damjan Kozole (subject of a Cinematheque retrospective in 2005) was awarded Best Director at Karlovy Vary for this taut, chilling, noir-minded thriller, the writer-director’s long-awaited fiction follow-up to 2009’s A Call Girl. When a high-profile attorney is found naked, mutilated, and barely conscious in what appears to have been a savage dog attack, his traumatized wife (Pia Zemljic, in a powerhouse performance) resolves to discover the truth and, in damage-control mode, minimize the media frenzy. The film, full of moral corruption and mounting speculation, is based on a shockingly real 2010 Slovenian scandal, where a well-connected doctor was discovered in similar macabre circumstances.