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Powerful and rewarding, filled with striking imagery shot by cameraman Ed Lachman (Erin Brockovich, Far From Heaven) and featuring extraordinarily potent performances from its cast, Import Export is the new film from director Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days). A tour de force journey through modern-day Europe, Import Export tells two parallel stories: Olga (Ekateryna Rak) who leaves behind her mother and young child in the Ukraine to seek out a better life in Vienna; and a headstrong young security guard (Paul Hofmann) who leaves Vienna to accompany his stepfather on a trip delivering gumball machines in Eastern Europe. Hailed by critics as a startling and bold film, it is without doubt recent European cinema s most provocative and audacious investigation of the post-Soviet universe and the new relations between East and West.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Ina27
Format:DVD
A Ukrainian nurse and an Austrian security officer in their 20s face brutality of life when their career/work stops bringing income. They are forced to move to 'the other side of Europe'. With their adventures we learn to what degree Eastern Europe is deprived and Western Europe privileged.
An alternative film title could read 'What the news will never tell you about how the other half lives'.
Let not the DVD cover deceive you: this is not a film about sex trafficking or every day life of a local brother. This is certainly not a new 'Trainspotting'. This is a bitter view on Europe as we do not know it bombarded by media on one hand and stereotypes on another.
The film showcased lives of ordinary Western and Eastern Europe citizens trapped by circumstances. Both characters are not willing to be life victims but they are not quite able to find their luck.
An alternative film title could read 'What the news will never tell you about how the other half lives'.
Let not the DVD cover deceive you: this is not a film about sex trafficking or every day life of a local brother. This is certainly not a new 'Trainspotting'. This is a bitter view on Europe as we do not know it bombarded by media on one hand and stereotypes on another.
The film showcased lives of ordinary Western and Eastern Europe citizens trapped by circumstances. Both characters are not willing to be life victims but they are not quite able to find their luck.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Dooscah
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
This film delivers and pulls no punches at all. Ulrich Seidl stamps in his authority as a serious director right off the bat. He fly's you straight into the heart of Austria from your couch and remains hell-bent on submersing you in an intertwined journey through Eastern European life encompassing the necessary accuracy and rawness to achieve this properly for the viewer. Seidl sugarcoats nothing!
Several scenes will leave your imagination ridiculed by a rich plethora of colour contrast and imagery all finely cut together to generate a real sense of place and experience.
Without any faith whatsoever, I only dreamed this would one day be released in HD so you might conceive of my immense joy when I suddenly re-encountered it wrapped in a blue cover. I'll reserve the story/characters for others but for avant garde lovers who value realism or those moved by aesthetics, this is more than a worthwhile purchase you should not be disappointed with.
Several scenes will leave your imagination ridiculed by a rich plethora of colour contrast and imagery all finely cut together to generate a real sense of place and experience.
Without any faith whatsoever, I only dreamed this would one day be released in HD so you might conceive of my immense joy when I suddenly re-encountered it wrapped in a blue cover. I'll reserve the story/characters for others but for avant garde lovers who value realism or those moved by aesthetics, this is more than a worthwhile purchase you should not be disappointed with.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Antioquia
Format:DVD
Another outstanding film from Ulrich Seidl, director of Dog Days. It's a fly-on-the-wall look at the lives of Olga, a Ukranian nurse who finally gives up and moves to Austria when the hospital can't pay her salary (imagine your boss giving you 30% of your salary at the end of the month - in Ukraine and elsewhere that's not uncommon) and an Austrian security guard and his step-father who hawk gumball machines around Ukraine. The camera is unflinching in showing the detail of hard lives and the scramble for a financial existence. Overall the film is engrossing as an observational work with some striking scenes. It's not a story in the sense that there isn't an ending or a "meaning" and like Dog Days it's bleak but despite that it has huge energy and stays with you till the end.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Life in the ugly raw
Ulrich Seidl's (the director) stated intention behind this film: to show without embellishment, raw situations stripped naked to the Truth, unadorned, however uncomfortable. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Jan Mecir
1.0 out of 5 stars
Do Not Buy the BluRay of this title
THIS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN RELEASED ON BD ! This is NOT HD.
This is a third rate PAL SD master upconverted to HD for BD.
This is a third rate PAL SD master upconverted to HD for BD.
Published on 14 Feb 2010 by H S Marks
3.0 out of 5 stars
Depressing Look At Life On The Other Side Of The World
Olga is Ukrainian, she works for little money in the hospital. She works hard at trying new roles, but nothing really gets her interested. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2009 by DL Productions UK
3.0 out of 5 stars
'The Truth, Without Embellishments'...Better On DVD
So said the director, but this film is so determined to be bleak, it's a little hard to accept that proposition. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2009 by Philoctetes
5.0 out of 5 stars
import export
Empathy. You've got to be quite cold-hearted if don't like this film. Or you may forever be addicted to fast Hollywood movies. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2009 by Sl Fonden
4.0 out of 5 stars
Import/Export
Just to counter the somewhat negative reviews of this film I wanted to say that I thought it was brilliant. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2009 by Mr. S. J. Andrews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Post-Soviet blues
The title says it all : people as commodities in the new European landscape of invisible borders. It could have been called East, West as the flow of labour in the film is both... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2009 by technoguy
2.0 out of 5 stars
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Someone else said its just like lilya 4 Eva, except we are spares the head bashing Russian death metal (any director that could make that work in a film would give Tarantino a run... Read more
Published on 8 April 2009 by Andrew M. Craven
3.0 out of 5 stars
depressing
Its dark dank eastern european film making.You either like it or you dont.Storyline same as many but watchable to the end.
Published on 11 Feb 2009 by N. Tate
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