“Not for the faint-hearted” was all I had to see to choose a
screening of The Whirlpool at CIFF 2013 over one of Oh Boy, a European Film
Award winning black-and-white comedy. I am naturally drawn to boundary pushing films
that can stick a wrench in my gut and effectively reinforce my bleak world-view.
The Serbian film directed by Bojan Vuk Kosovcevic failed to
adequately satisfy my cinematic appetite. However, I still remain in praise of
what it set out to do and how it attempts to accomplish just that, even though
I found the ending quite inconclusive and ambiguous. I couldn’t dismiss away such an
ambitious film that has so much going for it. But I wouldn’t deem it a success
either.
