Film
Holiday
- Director
- Isabella Eklöf
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 92 mins
A Danish druglord (Lai Yde) takes his young and beautiful trophy girlfriend Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) on an extended luxury holiday at his luxury villa in the port city of Bodrom on the Turkish Riviera with his extended criminal family. Initially excited by his dangerous lifestyle, she soon learns that physical and psychological violence are this family’s stock in trade. And when she attracts the attention of a handsome Dutchman, things turn very nasty indeed.
Sensitive types who require a ‘trigger warning’ should be advised that Swedish writer/director Isabella Eklöf‘s award-winning feature debut is very strong stuff indeed, with plenty of assault, sexual humiliation and “one of the more explicit and brutal rape scenes in recent memory”. As the Hollywood Reporter noted of the film’s likelihood to spark heated debate: “Is this a certain kind of twisted feminist empowerment statement? Is the vile sex scene simple exploitation or absolutely necessary to an understanding how and why Sascha behaves afterwards? All of this and more will be debated wherever the film winds up being seen. In the end, the director dares to let the viewer become impatient with her story’s lack of momentum and complexity for a good long while, only to cash in big time in the home stretch. It’s an exceptional feature debut.”
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