IMPORT/EXPORT (2007)
ULRICH SEIDL
Plot
This Golden Palm nominee at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival contains two parallel stories of indebted youngsters seeking a better life. One follows a young Ukranian girl moving to the West and her search for work, the other a young Austrian security guard on a trip East with his dad selling second hand gaming machines. Moments of humour adorn a film containing some explicit shots of a Europe in which sex has become a gratuitous commodity and money/authority uncaring; this, all against a backdrop of financial and emotional wastelands in both Austria and the Ukraine.