Holiday

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Alain E @AlainE Apr 27 A meaningless exposition of behavior that occurs beyond the confines of any ethical code. Sascha is the abused girlfriend of a minor Danish drug dealer who is vacationing with his crew at a Turkish seaside town. She comes in contact there with another Scandinavian man who lives on a boat. A friction develops, words are exchanged and she ends up killing the man. Her colleagues clean up after her and then they all spend a relaxing day swimming. The end. Very inspiring! Summer is approaching and we all should have similarly enjoyable vacations. See more Joel S @RT00174315 07/07/2024 This is one of those slick unimaginative European art house flicks which thinks or can just throw a basic premise at you and nothing else and consequently fails to disappoint in the third act by the time you’ve invested into the central character with nothing reward Awful. Lazy and pretentious. See more Ola G @Ollie1972 02/12/2023 A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera... The film has clearly taken a bit too much inspiration from Gaspar Noés fantastic "Irréversible" and Ruben Östlund´s different storytelling style, but "Holiday" is not really succeeding in creating something memorable. The "chock" scenes are structured in many ways as the difficult scenes in "Irréversible", but hardly coming up to the same standard of Noés extreme visual content. It´s a too fragmented film and the director Isabella Eklöf´s effort to "chock" the audience reaches only halfways. Trivia: It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film won four Bodil Awards, including Best Danish Film. See more 03/09/2020 Sascha is a young woman whose older boyfriend is a drug dealer – and is also very controlling. The film seems to be an examination of her life with her boyfriend over several days. There were a couple of aspects of the film I liked. The lead actress who played Sascha is very good, and I liked how the cameral focused much of the film on her. The director captured the nuances of her character very well. Otherwise, I found the film rather boring. There is a story, but the story itself did not make a lot of sense to me; it seems that she meets two men on a boat from her homeland and begins to get pulled between wanting to go back home and staying with the life of luxury and money that she currently has. There is a demonstration of "toxic masculinity" with the male characters who control their women and control each other. But when I tried to add it all up, I couldn't come up with a story that really got me to think more deeply about Sascha and her situation. I give it a bare thumbs up, again for the camerawork and the acting, but the lack of a really hard-hitting story makes it for me a film I could have missed. See more avant s @RT02026086 12/17/2019 needed breaks to finish this movie and need to take a show after finishing this. See more Oana L @theonlyoana 10/17/2019 Watching Holiday was an incredible journey, but this isn't a journey everyone will enjoy. It's scandalous. It's beautiful. It's shocking. It can even feel frustrating at times. It's haunting. Some scenes stay with you long after having watched the movie. It's a wonderful display of toxic dynamics that will draw you in and take your breath away. See more Read all reviews

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