love

written & directed by Vladan Nikolic
2005, 93 min. 35mm

In this stylish, atmospheric thriller, a hit man who learned his deadly craft in the Balkan wars, his beautiful former lover, and her police officer boyfriend all cross paths in lower Manhattan. The looping, nonlinear narrative structure and crisscrossing fates of its colorful characters may remind many of Pulp Fiction, but instead of recycling the hipster argot and rap rhythm of that influential L.A. story of more than a decade ago, love gives us a wintry, present-day New York City that is very much a cosmopolitan metropolis, a city of immigrant hustlers and their Old World accents-the Yugoslavian hit man, the German doctor, the French coquette, and the Neapolitan crook, and many others. love is all the more stimulating because of the elegant simplicity with which it was made; aside from its thriller plot, the spare visual composition and beautifully lit scenes are alone more than reason enough to see this picture. From its memorable scenes, which include a killing in a park to the Mexican stand-off inside a church to the dimly lighted nightclub, where an emcee in drag promises the jaded patrons 'music you've never heard before,' this stylish crime tale makes the New York scene glow with color-drenched beauty, menace, and mystery.
-2005, Tribeca Film Festival

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Recent Screenings

November 2006 International Film Festival Frankfurt, GERMANY

November, 2006 - Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA

October 2006 XXVII MOSTRA DE VALENCIA, Valencia, SPAIN

October 2006 - Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque

September 2006 - Portland, Oregon

September 2006 - Buffalo, NY
September 2006 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
September 2006 - Lake Worth, FL
September 2006 - Wilmington, DE

July 2006 - Moscow International Film Festival

July 2006 - New Films in New Europe, Pittsburgh, PA

July 2006 - Reel Savannah Film Group, Savannah, GA
June 2006 - Portage Theatre, Chicago, IL
June 2006 - SouthSide FF, Bethlehem, PA
June 2006 - Digital Barcelona FF - Best Film, Young Jury Prize
April 2006 - Minneapolis-St. Paul International FF

February 16 - March 11 Pioneer Theater, New York
March 2006 - Tiburon Int'l FF - Best Director Award

February 2006 - Belgrade FF
April 2005 - Tribeca Film Festival, New York
September 2005 - Venice Film Festival, Venice
October 2005 - Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany
October 2005 - Cinema Tout Ecran, Switzerland

Reviews:

"Cool, mysterious and defiantly foreign, "Love" plays out on the immigrant fringes of an indifferent New York City, in backstreet clubs and decrepit buildings where past and present uneasily coexist…"love" is a mournful thriller about the myth of assimilation and the way nurture — or, more precisely, the lack of it — fashions identity and character.Jeannette Catsoulis - NY Times

"A multi-perspectival film vastly superior to Crash, Vladan Nikolic's dynamic thriller Love reinvigorates a stale cinematic format and imparts a compelling message all without a single head-on collision… love gives you hope for the future of independent movies..." Matt Singer – THE VILLAGE VOICE