The Load

Name: The Load
Genre: Drama
Released: August 30, 2019
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Branislav Ciric, Igor Bencina, Ivan Lucev, Kosta Bekric, Leon Lucev

2019

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: August 30, 2019 | NR

Starring: Branislav Ciric, Igor Bencina, Ivan Lucev, Kosta Bekric, Leon Lucev, Novak Bilbija, Pavle Cemerikic, Radoje Cupic, Tadija Calukovic, Tamara Krcunovic

Summary: During NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. [Grasshopper Film]

Director: Ognjen Glavonic

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 98 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Aug 28, 2019

This is one of the year’s best films. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Aug 29, 2019

The gray skies under which Glavonic shoots, the unhurried takes in which he chronicles the drive, they put us with Vlada in an unmitigated way, the better to compel viewers to ask themselves what they would do in his position. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 17, 2019

The overtly graphic isn’t Glavonic’s visual style, but rather a cold, more powerful image seepage — what a man’s physicality says about complicity, and what a shot of the muddied ground near a hosed-down truck says about what war does to the ground, a land and the soul. Read full review

Lawrence Garcia

Aug 28, 2019

As intelligently crafted as the film is, Glavonić’s directorial strategies do end up limiting the film’s observational power. Read full review

Jake Cole

Aug 28, 2019

Chromatically, The Load makes Saving Private Ryan look like The Band Wagon. Yet Glavonic still manages to convey the devastation and numbness that results from atrocity without resorting to exploitation. Trauma is approached obliquely, more a subliminal fact of life than a single psychological rupture to be confronted and mended. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Aug 28, 2019

It’s like we’re front-seat passengers, and though it induces much anxiety, “The Load” compels us to keep both eyes forward lest we miss whatever might happen next. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

Aug 28, 2019

This well-intentioned meditation of the banality of evil packs a modest emotional punch, but it might have been more powerful if it had shown us a little less banality and a little more evil. Read full review

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INFEDnoX

Jan 7, 2022

A deeply moving film, Ognjen Glavonić's debut finds poignance in quiet pockets of space. Glavonić's directing is slow and hypnotic, almost Bela Tarr-esque in places. His background in documentaries is readily apparent; he seems content to allow the camera to wander of its own accord, toA deeply moving film, Ognjen Glavonić's debut finds poignance in quiet pockets of space. Glavonić's directing is slow and hypnotic, almost Bela Tarr-esque in places. His background in documentaries is readily apparent; he seems content to allow the camera to wander of its own accord, to drift between spaces of incredible beauty - a bleak and beige countryside, a bus on fire, a claustrophobic roadside motel stop. Its people shift in and out of frame, with occasional background characters coming to the fore for a short time, each with their own individual story, most to be relayed to the viewer silently and only in passing. It's a film about what it means to hold onto one's individual dignity in the face of extreme adversity. Glavonić regards these characters with a sort of reverence, offering us a glimpse into their quiet, often silent struggles, one that you can't help but watch. After a while, it becomes impossible to look away.… Expand

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