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Bookmark this pageLoners (2000)
Director: David Ondrícek
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From Time Out Film Guide
If you caught Petr Zelenka's Buñuel-like Buttoners and enjoyed it (who didn't?), you're in for a treat with this likewise wry, faintly surreal black comedy - Zelenka wrote it while making Buttoners - interweaving the exploits of seven not-so-bright young things looking for love and a sense of purpose in modern Prague. It's a story of loneliness, obsession, betrayal, misunderstanding and confusion; it's also about chance, coincidence, destiny, responsibility, radio DJs, medical science, parents, car crashes, dope, and a Japanese take on Western life, all of which suggests this might be seen as 'Buttoners 2'. Well, it's similarly quirky, stylish and often very funny, yet at the same time fresh enough to feel quite original.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: David Ondrícek
Producer: David Ondrícek
Cast: Jitka Schneiderová, Labina Mitevska, Dana Sedláková, Ivan Trojan, Sasa Rasilov, Jirí Machácek full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 104 mins
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