Jani Sever

The film takes a dynamic approach merging documentary and fiction. This makes Antigone – How Dare We! come across not as an essay, but as a portrait or at least an outline of some of the socio-political developments of the present age, a time full of paradox and hypocrisy. With a telling selection and clever editing of the archive material, the director compensates for the crudeness of the pay and the metafictional aspect, thus pointing to the challenges in interpreting Antigone in the light of the pressing issues, while exploring how Antigone and Creon can speak to us today. Sceptical and ironic, yet never farcical, Antigone – How Dare We! raises more questions than it gives answers, mostly managing to avoid the generalisation and simplification often pervading the artistic and cultural expression today.

Antigone – How Dare We! is a film that goes beyond the usual dividing line between fiction and documentary. With its formal and intellectual complexity, it makes a thought-provoking creation, grandiosely raising some of the issues that extend far beyond Slovenia’s borders. As this kind of ambition is rarely seen in the works produced in Slovenia, the jury presents the film with the Vesna Award for Best Documentary – and this should be merely the start of its successful international run.

Izbrani koprodukcijski film z dovršenim jezikom, subtilnimi režijskimi prijemi in vrhunsko igro sporoča, da različnost ni le stanje družbe, ampak pogoj za njen obstoj.