The Load
New Directors/New Films 2019
March 27 - April 7, 2019
A work of enveloping atmosphere, Ognjen Glavonić’s wintry road movie concerns a truck driver tasked with transporting mysterious cargo from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. A New Directors/New Films 2019 selection. A Grasshopper Film release.
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Ognjen Glavonić’s wintry road movie concerns a truck driver (Leon Lucev) tasked with transporting mysterious cargo across a scorched landscape from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. A companion piece to the director’s 2016 documentary Depth Two, The Load is a work of enveloping atmosphere that puts a politically charged twist on the highway thrillers it recalls: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin’s retelling, Sorcerer. The streamlined premise gives way to a slow-dawning reckoning, in which implications of guilt and complicity slowly but surely sink in. A New Directors/New Films 2019 selection. A Grasshopper Film release.
Four stars. This is one of the year’s best films. A mesmerizing narrative feature debut.
—Matt Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com
Atmospheric, gripping.
—Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
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