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Import/Export (2007)
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Maria Hofstatter, Georg Friedrich, Herbert Fritsch, Susanne Lothar
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...in Seidl's universe, everybody is either miserable or cruel...
Though not as powerful or original as Dog Days, Import/Export, arguably the grimmest film in Cannes Fest this year, nerits attention for continuings to show Seidl's singular vision, here manifest in making East looks more like West and vice versa.
A tawdry little film ostensibly about the cultural clashes resulting from the proximity of former Soviet states, such as the Ukraine, to western nations such as Austria. There is a film to be made on the topic, but this isn't it.


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