Once I Got in, It Was Hard to Get Out

Overview

Ida is cleaning out the house that her grandfather, an artist, used to live in. She wades through a studio overflowing with artefacts, oddities and lost history. Similarly to S P A C E S, Štrbová treats the theme of memory and loss, combining fiction and documentary, letting the images of nostalgic childhood and the suffocating past flow associatively. To the sound of Francesco Geminiani's Concerto grosso no. 12, subtitled Madness, the fragile physicality of both dead and living relics stands out. The head of a dead parrot, a cast of her grandmother's breasts or a moss-covered real estate agent represent the discoveries of a personal archaeological site and exhibits of an introspective museum of family history.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 31, 2024

Original language

Slovak

Spoken languages

Slovak

Countries

Czech Republic

Production

FAMU

Cast

Juliána Brutovská,Michael Vrzala,Klára Ščevíková

Director

Nora Štrbová

Writer

Hermína Peričová,Nora Štrbová

Producer

Hana Šormová

Cinematography

Kryštof Čížek

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt38534523