Landscape No. 2 the Winner of the Festival of Slovenian Film

25 October 2008

At the 11th Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož, which has just concluded, the film Landscape No. 2 received as many as six main Vesna Awards, given by the expert jury of the festival:

  • Award for Best Film
  • Award for Best Director: Vinko Möderndorfer
  • Award for Best Supporting Actress: Maja Martina Merljak
  • Award for Best Cinematography: Dušan Joksimović
  • Award for Best Production Design: Dušan Milavec
  • Award for Best Music: Borut Kržišnik

The Festival of Slovenian Film is an overview of last year's production, which concludes with the Awards for the most prominent achievements and artists. This festival is the successor of the Week of the National Film, established in the 1970s.

Slovenian Premiere and Distribution of the Film

9 October 2008

The Slovenian premiere of the film is going to take place on 22 October at the 11th Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož.

It is to be shown in the Slovenian cinemas since 23 October. The Slovenian distributor is Cinemania Group.

Venice Days the Best Section of the 65th Mostra Festival

6 September 2008

The Giornate degli Autori / Venice Days section, where the film Landscape No. 2 was screened, was chosen as the best section of the 65th Venice Film Festival. The Bisato d’Oro Award 2008 is given by the jury of film critics, this time presided over by the film critic and historian Antonio Llorens Sanchis.

Landscape No. 2 in the Competition Programme of the Warsaw Festival

7 October 2008

The Polish premiere of Landscape No. 2 will take place in the competition section of the 24th Warsaw Film Festival, where the film will be screened on 12 October (18:30), 16 October (11:00) and 17 October (21:00).

After Venice, Landscape No. 2 Heads to Rome and Milan

10 September 2008

After the conclusion of the 65th Venice Festival, selected films were presented to the audiences in Rome and Milan in the context of the "Venice in Rome" and "Venice in Milan" (Panoramica) programmes. Landscape No. 2 also qualified for this selection; the audience in Rome will be able to see it on 11 and 12 September in Cinema Farnese.

Press after the Venice Premiere

8 September 2008

A killer repping an ugly, unresolved and nearly forgotten chapter of post-WWII history confronts a cynical, amoral Everyman in "Landscape No. 2," the sophomore feature from Slovenian helmer-scribe Vinko Möderndorfer. Played realistically yet with a wink to Grand Guignol theatrics, this audacious, superbly crafted, contempo horror pic spiced with humorous hardcore action could surpass the notoriety of his feature debut "Suburbs". …Perfs are tops across the board, supported by a tidy tech package led by the ironic lensing of ace Serbian d.p. Dušan Joksimović.

  • Alissa Simon – Variety, 28 August 2008

Perhaps in the Giornate degli autori (Authors' Days) programme we found an excellent Slovenian response to the film No Country for Old Men. There are many common points between the Academy Award‑winning Coen brothers' masterpiece and Landscape No. 2 by Vinko Möderndorfer…Once again the Giornate degli autori section proves that today it is senseless to differentiate between the authorial and genre film. Everything is a genre, but everything can still become authorial. A very beautiful film. If only we also had such films in the competition programme.

  • Francesco Alò – Il Messagero, 1 September 2008

…Vinko Möderndorfer shot a political film in the form of a thriller, where violence from the past erupts in the present: and it is no coincidence that when asked about models, he mentions The Shining by Stanley Kubrick, where a hotel caretaker is "forced" to repeat murders he had committed in his previous lives.

  • Alberto Crespi - L'Unita, 29 August 2008

Through "film noir", which does not avoid surprises with a hint of "splatter" and anthological erotic scenes (you will not easily forget Barbara Cerar and Maja Martina Merljak), the film becomes a metaphor for history, which has been repeating in the former Yugoslavia for a long time in the form of tragedy and grotesque.

  • Boris Sollazzo -Il sole 24 Ore, 29 August 2008

Möderndorfer develops the text as an essay on political film and lines up archive shots and television programmes about the uncovering of the fragments of historical horrors, the ambiguous power of the church, a grotesque portrayal of communism reduced to an image of an old man with a catheter, and a clash between the victims and murderers in a "landscape" of the living dead.

  • Michele Faggi –www.indie-eye, 29 August 2008

World Premiere in Venice

11 August 2008

The world premiere of the film Landscape No.2 will take place at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori / Venice Days programme. 

Press screening:

  • August 27th, 8.15pm, PalaLido  

World premiere:

  • August 28th, 5.45pm, PalaLido 

Repeat screenings:

  • September 4th, 11.30pm, Sala Perla
  • September 6th, 2pm, Sala Pasinetti

Landscape No. 2 at Cannes Marché du Film

6 May 2008

Screenings at the Cannes Marché du Film:

  • Wednesday, 21st, 12:00, PALAIS C
  • Thursday, 22nd, 15:30, PALAIS B

Wide Management Acquires Rights for the Sales of the Film

28 March 2008

Forum Ljubljana signed an agreement on the worldwide sales of the film with the French sales agent WIDE Management from Paris.

Landscape No. 2 at 58th Berlinale EFM

28 January 2008

Screenings at the Berlinale European Film Market:

  • Sunday, 10 February CinemaxX Studio 15, at 12:45 pm
  • Wednesday, 13 February CinemaxX Studio 15, at 15:00 pm