Dancing in the Rain

Peter drifts through a shapeless life, holding out for an ideal woman while half-heartedly staying with Marusa, who is considerably older than he is and never allowed to forget it. She is an ageing stage actress struggling to get parts, and insecurity comes off her in waves. They sit in the same restaurant drinking, smoking and landing verbal blows on each other. When a director finally shows her the door, her sense of who she is gets squeezed harder, and the two of them start dreaming their way out. Bostjan Hladnik adapted Dominik Smole’s novel Black Days and a White Day for his first feature after coming back from Paris, where he had worked with Chabrol, Siodmak and de Broca. It is generally treated as the point where Slovenian cinema turned modernist, and in 2005 Slovenian critics voted it the best Slovenian film ever made.