The Unbalanced

2DOR15
Director:Zuzana Piussi
Cast:Ingrid Hrubaničová, Vladimír Zboroň, Jaroslava Sisáková, Daniela Gudabová
Premiere:6. April 2023
Length:79 minutes
Genre:Drama

The Unbalanced

Zešílet; Zuzana Piussi, 2022, versions: OR, languages: slk

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Director: Zuzana Piussi • Cast: Ingrid Hrubaničová, Vladimír Zboroň, Jaroslava Sisáková, Daniela Gudabová, Tatiana Marta Rehúšová, Ľudmila Lukačíková Kozmenko

When the foundations of one’s own home are shaken in cinema, the results can veer towards horror or comedy. Or both, as Zuzana Piussi’s first fiction feature after a variety of documentaries well proves. After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.

Length: 79 min

Year: 2022
Local premiere date: 6. April 2023

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (slovak)

V nádeji na nový život v novom byte nie je človek sám. Sú tu aj susedia.

Director: Zuzana Piussi • Cast: Ingrid Hrubaničová, Vladimír Zboroň, Jaroslava Sisáková, Daniela Gudabová, Tatiana Marta Rehúšová, Ľudmila Lukačíková Kozmenko

When the foundations of one’s own home are shaken in cinema, the results can veer towards horror or comedy. Or both, as Zuzana Piussi’s first fiction feature after a variety of documentaries well proves. After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.

Year: 2022
Local premiere date: 6. April 2023

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (slovak)