Slovenka is a story of an ambitious girl who starts facing the wrath of the world and does her best to manage the situation around her. The movie is slow, intense, barren and gives a sense of normalcy in between. The movie doesn’t have much as a story but a lot as intensity of the lead character, her relationship with her father and her determination and confidence in herself. Throughout the movie the camera has literally followed the lead character, she is never out of frame and that’s why she leaves an imprint on viewer. It is more about situation and conditions than moral judgment. The quest of a girl and her deep desire to make it more in her life is unquestionable and make you think without actually disturbing you great deal.
In the end the story of our life is not our life, it is the 'story'.
Aleksandra is a beautiful, innocent looking and ambitious Slovenian girl. She is a student of English language and works as a prostitute under the name Slovenka for European diplomat as Slovenia is presiding European union. She has bought an apartment by taking loan from bank and is under debt. She is a child of divorced parent and frequently visits her father in a small town.
One evening when she was supposed to serve for a German diplomat, the person gets a heart attack and dies while she calls to hotel authorities for an ambulance. She quietly takes away after collecting money from his wallet. The death of German diplomat becomes a news and national tabloid all over and police start looking for the prostitute who called for ambulance for more information.
She manipulates and avoids her lover who divorces his wife to marry Aleksandra. She also successfully manipulates her professor to pass the exam as well as the bank staff to extend time for paying debt. Things get vicious when two pimps forces her to work for them and apply tricks to subdue her in their trap however she ran away from them and seek the assistance of her lover whom she was plainly ignoring earlier. Incidentally her lover come to know about her real profession when ‘the pimps’ make a threat call on her cell which he picks.
She still manages to work as a call girl even there is a certain fear of pimps’ duo. At one instance she comes across the friend of her father as her client. She ran away but the friend of her dad chases and psychologically forces (or virtually blackmails) her to have sex with him and later deny paying her.
She ultimately has to sell her flat and move on with her life with her dad as the only person she cares about.
The movie has represented the complications in the girl’s life as something which potentially could discourage or break her but every time she seems more determined and confident. The police and the pimps searching for her, the incident where the friend of her father manipulates her, these all tends to fall heavy on viewer’s psyche.
The movie is quite watchable more for the lead character; the actress has played it great with proper justice.
Cast –
Nina Ivanisin - Aleksandra/Shasha/Slovenka
Peter Museuski - Edo (Aleksandra’s father).
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In the end the story of our life is not our life, it is the 'story'.
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