Minimum Love – Films – Visions du Réel

Minimum lásky

Maja Penčič
Tschechien | 2025 | 75 min
Première Internationale
Sprache : Tschechisch
Untertitel : Englisch, Französisch

Maja Penčič streift mit der Kamera durch die Strassen Prags, um spontane Umfragen zur Gemütsverfassung ihrer Landsleute durchzuführen. Aus den reichlich alkoholisierten Interaktionen ergibt sich das Bild einer tschechischen Jugend, die sich unverblümt zu Klimakrise, Ukrainekrieg, Feminismus, Liebeswirren und einvernehmlicher Sexualität äussert.

On the fly, the camera catches hurried faces escaping from a Prague metro station, addressing them – often in vain – with a rather ordinary question: “How are you today?”. In the manner of a scouting mission, this prologue immediately frames the objective of Maja Penčič’s project: to spontaneously investigate the mindset of her fellow citizens. She waits patiently in line at club entrances or in more underground spaces where young people are free to indulge themselves. Seemingly taking the expression “in vino veritas” at face value, the director asks them what they think about the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, gender relations, sexual consent, their search for love, and more. Slowly, the camera settles, and deeper conversations emerge amid the widespread revelry. Anxiety, disillusionment and bewilderment emerge in the looks to camera, reflected back at us by Gen Z as portrayed in Minimum Love, desperately fleeing the mute violence of an apathetic, sanitised society.

Emmanuel Chicon

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