Tilva Ros
Teens Marko, aka Toda (Marko Todorovic), and Stefan (Stefan Dordevic) are best friends and founders of the local skateboard club Kolos, whose members bat about racist remarks while imitating hip-hop culture. Most of the performers, locals like Lezaic himself, play themselves to a large degree.
Stefan's partiality to Dunja (one of the few completely fictional characters, Dunja Kovacevic) causes tensions between the chums, exacerbating Toda's stewing resentment that his pal will leave for college in Belgrade in the fall. The jealousy is further complicated by a difference in class: Stefan's dad drives a Mercedes and is active in union politics, while Toda's father is a worker in the smelting plant.
As the summer winds to a close, Toda increasingly acts out, paralleling the growing unrest in town as disgruntled laborers protest the area's depressed conditions (...).
This final summer together marks the last time the kids can shrug off contemplating anything other than alcohol and their navels.
[W]orthy of praise is the way Lezaic integrates the environment – with its strip mines and nondescript streets – into the kids' lives (...).
Jay Weissberg, Variety
Duration: 99 min
Dialogue: Serbian
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
