Modra (2010)
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80% of critics liked it
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82% want to see it
(34 ratings)
Two teenagers learn you don't have to be in love to break someone's heart in this drama. Seventeen-year-old Lina (Hallie Switzer) visits her mother's family in Modra, Slovakia every summer, but she finds herself facing the prospect of making the trip by herself when her boyfriend… More Two teenagers learn you don't have to be in love to break someone's heart in this drama. Seventeen-year-old Lina (Hallie Switzer) visits her mother's family in Modra, Slovakia every summer, but she finds herself facing the prospect of making the trip by herself when her boyfriend abruptly breaks up with her. At the last minute, Lina invites Leco (Alexander Gammal), a boy in her class, to join her; she thinks he's cute, and he's in the market for a girlfriend, so the two set out for Modra. While Lina's family assume the two are an item, it soon becomes obvious to Lina and Leco that they don't share much beyond a return ticket, but that doesn't keep Leco from feeling hurt and betrayed when Lina steps out with a boy she's just met. Modra was written and directed by Ingrid Veninger, who previously distinguished herself as a producer. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ingrid Veninger
- Genres
- Drama, Kids & Family, Romance
Critic Reviews
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Nothing wrong with making an audience do some imaginative work, but hell, not all the work.
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Jim Slotek, Jam! Movies
The result is what every indie director strives for -- an emotionally true movie that looks like it cost about 10 times its actual budget.
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Adam Nayman, eye WEEKLY
That the director's Slovakian relatives appear in background roles as members of Lina's extended clan gives MODRA the feeling of a home movie, but it's more accurate to say that this is personal filmmaking of a refreshingly modest stripe.
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Norman Wilner, NOW Toronto
An intimately scaled and emotionally vivid study of two young people forging a connection.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...Modra has been hard-wired with an earnestness that is, for the most part, impossible to resist...
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