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  • 2019
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2019
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 38 m
The Load

Summary During NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. [Grasshopper Film]

Directed By: Ognjen Glavonic

Written By: Geoffroy Grison, Ognjen Glavonic

  • 2019
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2019
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 38 m

The Load

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary During NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. [Grasshopper Film]

Directed By: Ognjen Glavonic

Written By: Geoffroy Grison, Ognjen Glavonic

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
75
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11% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
75
89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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100
Aug 28, 2019
This is one of the year’s best films.
By Matt Fagerholm FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 17, 2019
The overtly graphic isn’t Glavonic’s visual style, but rather a cold, more powerful image seepage — what a man’s physicality says about complicity, and what a shot of the muddied ground near a hosed-down truck says about what war does to the ground, a land and the soul.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 28, 2019
It requires a degree of commitment on the part of the viewer to join the sparsely placed dots of Glavonić’s harshly intelligent and uncompromisingly spare story, especially when the picture they form is so harrowing. But the elements that frustrate can also devastate.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 28, 2019
Chromatically, The Load makes Saving Private Ryan look like The Band Wagon. Yet Glavonic still manages to convey the devastation and numbness that results from atrocity without resorting to exploitation. Trauma is approached obliquely, more a subliminal fact of life than a single psychological rupture to be confronted and mended.
By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 28, 2019
As intelligently crafted as the film is, Glavonić’s directorial strategies do end up limiting the film’s observational power.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 28, 2019
If any colour represents the long-term impact of war, it’s the blend of beige and grey that fills The Load’s quietly powerful frames.
By Sarah Ward FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 28, 2019
This well-intentioned meditation of the banality of evil packs a modest emotional punch, but it might have been more powerful if it had shown us a little less banality and a little more evil.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cinémadefacto, Dart Film & Video, Kinorama, Non-Aligned Films, Three Gardens Film
Release Date Aug 30, 2019
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Awards

FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC)
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Marrakech International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sarajevo Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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