The film premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina before being released theatrically in more than 30 countries, including the United States. According to Shaz Bennett of Moving Pictures , "the film is ultimately a fascinating study of free enterprise in free fall. In this mesmerizing chamber piece , director Damjan Kozole has contrived a new style of narrative to convey a view of capitalist culture at once outrageous and non-judgmental.
Set in Ljubljana , Slovenia, in , during the Slovenian presidency of the European Union , Aleksandra is a year-old English-language student who comes from a small town. Her parents are divorced and she hardly sees her mother. Neither her friends nor her family knows that Aleksandra runs personal ads under the nickname Slovenka "Slovenian girl" , and that prostitution is her secret source of income.
Aleksandra is very good at manipulating others including her father and ex-boyfriend ; she is an accomplished liar, and also a bit of a thief. She resents her mother and regards her as being selfish. Her ambition is to escape the banality of her hometown and settle in the big city in style, which necessitates her lucrative clandestine job. But that occupation leads her to a confrontation with dangerous local criminals, and suddenly she must live in fear as she struggles to maintain her income.
Alissa Simon of Variety referred to the title character as "one of the most coolly calculating antiheroines to grace the silver screen. This is a heart-breaking movie. With a elegantly written script that creates real three-dimensional characters, and a sparse aesthetic style, director Damjan Kozole's affecting character study creates a distinctive mood that is hard to shake off.
It is she who carries the film, and thanks to her the film is a 'must see. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. For other uses, see call girl disambiguation. This article is about the Slovene film. For Slovenian topics applicable to girls, see Slovene disambiguation.
