2/10
Slovenly Slovenians
30 December 2022
Firstly, despite Tubi changing the title to "A call girl," this is not the 2012 foreign film about Swedish politicians doing an Epstein. If you're looking for Olof Palme getting busy with teenagers, that is another movie. This movie sucks. It is one of those naturalistic slice-of-life art films. Former communist countries are like upper-class artsy Americans. Both are so shielded from the reality of having to make a living, they find watching a couple hours of misery and degradation entertaining. Normal people watch this crap and are needlessly reminded of the nasty brutish and short reality we deal with every day.

The call girl is despicable. Like Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman, every word she says is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'. I wanted to smash a grapefruit into her face. Her dad is better, but having visited Eastern Europe, people tend to look slim, not morbidly obese like her dad and his pals. The film is dreary and horrible except for the very end, when the call girl's dad gets his band doing a cover version of Frank Zappa's "Bobby Brown".

PS: The etymology of slovenly has nothing to do with Slovenia.
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