The gang-rape of a woman in The Accused (1988) and the pervasive violence in The Hateful Eight (2015) were seen as controversial, but the unintimidating kind of controversial that manages to garner awards. It reads like a bit of poetry, and, if the viewer can manage to look beyond their own righteous indignation, the film itself plays out like the kind of tragedy one might see if Grand Guignol theater copulated with Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. In film criticism, it often seems that sex and violence – if separate – are fine and lauded themes. They fuck you when you die in our country,īecause you always owe something to somebody.” During a Q&A bonus feature on the new unrated, uncut, Blu-ray release of A SERBIAN FILM, actress Jelena Gavrilović recalls the very statement that director Srdjan Spasojevic said to her that convinced her she needed to do the film:
