Ljubljana (2002) - full transcript

A story about a group of young Slovenians living in Ljubljana.

Hey. You think you could let me up on
the tower? I don't have any cash

with me and it'll be over now anyway.
- OK, go ahead. -Thanks.

Monthly pass...

movie ticket.. - still unused

...for today at 8 o'clock.

...that's all.

Starring

Make-up

Costume Design by

Production Designer

Line Producer



Sound by

Director of Photography

Assistant Director

Screenplay and Directed by

Here's a corpse of a 30-year-old
caucasian male, approx.180cm,

of an average muscle bulk, medium
robust bone-muscle structure.

The right 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th ribs
are fractured laterally.

The pleuron just below the right
rib fractures is torn downward.

There is an adjacent 4-5cm area
of dark blue clotted blood...

...the lingua is of normal size and
appearance. The orofarynx is empty.

The mucus membranes
of the throat are smooth.

The esophagus, folded
longitudinally, is pale-gray...

Pogaéar. Hello.
- Hello. Nice to meet you.

The house is five years old, built
primarily of first quality materials,



there's no cause to reckon with
any type of adaptation for 10 years

The ground plan covers 150 m2 per
story, there are two stories,

a basement, two kitchens...

...otherwise, let's just
ward off the nonsense.

Here's a draft of our contract.

I can guarantee you that
the house is cadastrally spotless.

However, demand is high.
You're the 3rd client today.

Let's step in here.

This room was
meant for a sauna...

Hello. Potatoes for sale.
Will you be buying potatoes?

No. I don't have any money.
- Very cheap. A bargain.

Yes, hello? No, he's not here...

No, I won't be buying.

Yes? No, I don't know
when he's coming..

OK... what's the message?
Is that all... to call Ambroziè?

So how's Med school?
- Huh, well...

Hey, Mare... I heard
the experts with diving rods

are going to land
all your business!

Here's to Barbara's twins!

One's just about to pop out too!
- Stop touching me!

He shoved the tube
straight down my throat!

Of course I failed
the breath test...

And rail
- Hey there!

Now we can only follow you
and your cello in the news...

Give me a break!

I heard you won an award.
- Nah, no big deal...

...he graduated before all of us!

Andraz skipped the 2nd year..

...unlike you, spending it
just to finish the first.

And you still have all
your exams ahead of you!

Remember Saso on our
graduation trip to that island?

He was so drunk, we rode
him back in a wheelbarrow!

...huh, Marjan! You are still
the same old Marjan..

...I paint.
- You paint? You're a painter now?

No, no. I mean I paint walls,
for my dad, his business...

Hey, doctor! Come on in!
- Hey there!

Welcome! -How's it going?
- Good... not like some..

Wow! What an apartment!

So, how's Ljubljana? Huh, banana..
- Nothing much...

You know Sasa..
- Oh, my Sweepea came finally! Hi!

You gained some weight. -Not really.
- Ah, but you did, you did!

Beba! Look here... This is him.
- Oh, hello!

This is Beba.
- Mare.

This here's Luka.
He mixes the best cocktails..

You gotta try this right away,
it's fantastic!

Why don't you go turn up
the music a bit.

Well done! This is great.

Hey, well, if I don't help myself,
then who will? Wait a sec!

What, you don't like techno?
- Huh, not really...

No problem! Now you'll get
something to chomp down..

...and then.. You know...
- What? -It'll be cool...

You know.. I've got
some candy you gotta try..

Naturally.. I've got to try it,
you know, professionally...

Olimpica.

Should I stop him?
- Yeah.

Hey, buddy! Got some spare
change? To get us some wine...

Change. ...?
- Yes please...

Shit...!

Uh, how about a towel, hm?

Lara called. Twice already.

And Ms. Podrzaj called
from the bank,

Nikka reported that there are some
problems with the 2nd installment.

Why don't you rather tell me if our
ad is in the papers? -Sure it is.

Very good, good indeed.

Wait...
- What. .. again? -Yup.

Ingenious!

Where's Mare?
- In bed.

Still sleeping?
It's 3 p.m. already!

I won't tolerate
this shit anymore!

Wake up! You hear? Wake up!
I've had enough of this!

Someone left a note
for me over the phone.

Have you no clue
how important this was?

Why didn't you leave me
the message, you idiot?!

You're crazy! I left you that note!
Right there by the phone!

That's a lie! There was no note!

Clean up that mess around
the phone and you might see it.

Look at you!
Lying there like a butterball!

Let him start paying the bills
or get him out of here!

It's wild! When it hits, man,
you just can't believe it!

That teeny weeny pill,
just a molecule, you know..

Those guys bolt them down like
candy. But it's unbelievable!

It just nails you! Like a rocket!
It hurls you around the entire hall

...10cm above ground! I danced
all night! You know how I dance..

...two minutes and back to
the beer, tired out like a dog.

No longer! It's like...like being
blessed. It's so cool!

Everybody's dancing, it's great!
Only, typical, I overdid it again...

My back.. I ended up lying there,
everyone around me dancing wild.

Gotta do something about this, I
mean exercise, toning the muscles..

No connections, none of this, or
that,and you can't start from zilch!

But something's
opening up now.

They called me
from Koln for an audition.

No shit! -Yeah, so now just entire
days...really...I'm going to make it!

You know him! It's the same guy
I was with in Split for that course..

Which guy? -That German...
Man, you should see him play!

He's the one who invited you to Koln?
- Yeah, for an audition.

It's wild! I could play all night
long just with him... -Great!

Yeah, and if the others are the same,
then I'm all for it. If they are.

Don't you get it, man? A new pub
opens up every week,

and every other one is totally
jam-packed! -Get serious!

Are you crazy? No way! No rubber,
no fun. No way without the rubber!

And what if there's no rubber?
Kids can't be making more kids!

But sometimes you just don't
have a rubber when you need it!

Handiwork, and move on!

Yeah but...some moments are just
too good to be true and left behind.

You old poet...
- What? You think she'll wait?!

The babe's all moist and hot..sorry,
I gotta jump on over to the station

for a johnny, be right back!
...she wont wait, I'm saying!

Brring, brring from down below...
two cops come up and:

"Turn it down to room level, the
neighbors below are very upset."

So I told them:
"We're also very upset...

Just listen to this piece!!

Little bitch... -But he's cool...
he told this babe to take a hike!

Can you imagine? Three years with
this girl and then she supposedly

just happens to get pregnant?
- Man, it's classic!

9 out of 10 getting married...
knocked up, you know?

Imagine it! Mom's and dad's,
aunts and uncles, the whole mess..

...then jamming away every day
from ten to two...

No crap! But the philharmonic
orchestra's great!

For what?..to get
the flocking urge?

One's up there
waving away at you,

and you're down there amidst
a bunch of fossils...

Oh, come on!
- What?!...I've done it before!

They're always watching the clock
like hawks, waiting for their shift

to end and then retirement galore!
- And all this ultra-light, titanium.

Forget plastic! I already told you
where the money is! Farms,my boy!

The less asphalt, the better.
You drive up, see the old house,

no dog?...you honk! Mammy
comes out. Hello! How are you?

Not so good. No? Why's that?
The roof leaks?

No problem! We'll fix it!
How will you fix it?

You have those government papers,
certificates? But they're worthless..

You give me the papers,
I give you 2000 DEM..

Mammy gets a new roof,
I get her shares.

He's so adorable...cause he's so
into fixing things so they can fly!

Don't tell me you're serious for
a guy that screws toys together?!

Come on!I didn't say I was getting
serious.They're not just some toys.

You should see it all. Stuff that
should never fly... But it does!

And so what,
even if they are toys.

That's just what I like about him...
that he's still into dreaming.

OK, but could you spend ten years
with him, or have a kid with him?

Tihi called me the other day.
He wanted to go out for a drink.

And? -And what?!
Of course I said no!

I can't go out for a drink with him!

Maybe you could by now.

Yeah, right! No I cant, and that's
that! Even if I wanted to, I can't.

How old is he now?
- I think he's almost a year.

But you don't know what
it does to me when I see them.

You know...cause with him I could
have a kid. Really, I would!

Why do you always have to stir
up the same old shit?

Let him go!
The guy has a kid! It's over!

Did you ever see
your folks have sex?

What?
- Or heard them?

Their room was always at
the other end of the house.

Thank God!

Just a little more than 24 hours
ago, last night at exactly 9:46 pm,

or just before 6 a.m. local time,
western Japan suffered

a terrible earthquake,
rating 7.2 on the Richter scale.

The destructive earthquake was
thirty times more powerful

than the atom bomb
dropped on Hiroshima.

The consequences are truly tragic.

Let's have a look
at the latest update.

The worst earthquake in Japan
in the last 50 years...

Yes, hello?
No, it's Mare.. yes, his son.

No, he's not home.

Sure, yeah. Yes...

He'll get the message.
Definitely, yes. Bye.

Hi mom! How are you?

Nothing... just a cold.
It's been going around.

No, not a virus.
Yes, I'm taking care of myself.

Yes. Me too.

Hey, mom? You know these sales
...I saw a jacket, blue, real pretty

...only a few are left.
And they're on sale..

No, they don't take checks.

They'll be gone, no way!

The guy set me up again and I
wont get my paycheck til the 20th.

You'll get that back too.

I can't leave your cash with
the doorman, you said so yourself.

Why do you have to complicate
over every shitty penny?!

No, I'm not nervous...
I just have a fever.

This shit always happens
whenever I call, always...

You always say how much you
love me, you miss me, and then

when I ask you for something...

No, you don't, no of course not...

I can hear him in the back
pumping you up...

You know what?! You go tell that
shit to your crappy boyfriend!

Yes?
Oh hi, it's you...

just taking it easy, all day...

yeah... really?
That's great!

I can't today, sorry, not today.

Hey, let's go tomorrow?

Tomorrow at 8:30 in front of the
cinema. OK. Ciao!

Ana...do you want some tea?
- Sure.

So, you're home?
- I didn't feel like going today.

Aren't classes mandatory?
- Not really..

You know, you could clean up
a bit... don't you think?

Did you go to class yesterday?

No. And not the day before,
or Tuesday either.

Actually, I haven't been yet
this week. But you know that!

And what about exams?

Exams aren't until September.And
I won't be finishing school anyway,

...cause it's stupid and
a waste of time!

Don't you think it would be
a shame to just give it all up?

I've got three years left...
do you know how long that is?

I'm sick of schools,
classes and shit!

Look, I've got this friend
who had fantastic grades,

among the best in the class,
and his dad's the head surgeon.

And what did he get?!
Small-town Kranj! Please!

So, it's pretty obvious that
I don't stand a chance!

Where will I end up? I have
zilch connections, bad grades...

probably some town in outer space
and for that miserly pay, too!

Honey, you gotta do something.
You have to have a profession.

Look who's talking...

...as if you haven't been getting
a free ride on dad your whole life!

Look mom, everything will be
alright. Just trust me a little.

I'll get by on my own.

Name and surname.
- OK, turn a little bit around..good.

Hair color. Eyes.
- Other direction. Lower your head..

Social security. ID number.
- Lift up your arm a bit. OK.

Next.

The guy from our class,the one who
kinda lost his sense of orientation

You mean Tomaz? -Yeah. Do you think
that even in his dreams...

that he gets a hard-on for girls,
or is it strictly just guys?

And I recall how we were both
crazy for the same girl in school...

What a paradox!
Man, do you get these guys?

From dawn til dawn they're
praying behind those walls,

so careful not to commit sin, and
all the while they're cultivating...

those mala fide, little green pears
into schnapps, so that later,

their drinkers can be found lying
dead in some ditch. Man, monks!

What's up you two?
- Hey, Mare!

So what's happening here today?
All around someone from our class

Are you going to
the Iggy Pop concert?

Nah...leave him
in the 19th century!

So, what are you doing here?!
This music rules here...

Aah! Checking out the options?
- What else!

Hey. What's up?
- What are you up to?

It's been a while...
- Happens..

So, how are things?

And you?
- Fine. Fine.

I heard you're living with
that blonde...?

So what happened when...

...you never know what...

Check out the graffiti
- a circled A.

50's anarchy 'in' again?

Who gives a shit about anarchy.
That's an A for amphetamines.

That's what's 'in' these days.

OK, well...I'll see you around...
- Yeah, definitely. See you.

Katja.

Hello! I'm doing a television poll
on which soap operas you like,

which broadcasts you watch most,
which television programs

Hello! I'm doing a poll on which
TV programs you like to watch,

which broadcasts you like best,
which soap operas...

Maybe if I could come in
for a second, we could...

Hello! I'm doing a poll on which
TV programs you like to watch...

Come on in, come on in!

I just want to go up for a few
minutes...but I'm all out of cash.

OK. Go ahead..