The House - Dom (2011, Slovakia & Czech Republic, 100 minutes, 35mm)

Eva lives with her parents in a remote Slovak village near a small city. She is finishing high school and dreams of moving to London but doesn’t dare openly oppose her father Imrich (Alois Nebel's Miroslav Krobot), a dour man who holds firm to his own ideas. When Eva's not home, he's always got his eye on the time, and when she is, he has her helping him build a house for her, brick by brick, rain or shine, in the backyard. At the same time, he spurns his troubled elder daughter Jana (Lucia Jasková) and her needy young family when they return to town, because he doesn't approve of her husband – never mind that he had just as single-mindedly once been building a house for her too. All of this starts to change when Eva (impressive newcomer Judit Bárdos) has an affair with a married man in the months before her graduation.

This is a highly auspicious feature debut from the very talented Zuzana Liová, deftly blending social realist drama with dark comedy.

Director and Screenwriter Zuzana Liová Producers Viktor Taus, Michal Kollar Production Company Fog'n'Desire Films

Screening Sunday, June 9, 3.30pm, at RMIT Capitol Theatre, preceded by Stones

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