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The main protagonist Maťo lives a carefree life with no rules. He and his childhood friend Tomáš steal cars for a car repair shop. Maťo’s life changes radically when he meets and falls in love with Veronika. Veronika lives the respectable life of a university student. She grew up in an orphanage and lives in a boarding house paid for by her school. She is constantly trying to contact her mother, whom she has never seen. Maťo doesn’t tell her the whole truth about himself, and would like to change his life because of her. The first conflicts
appear between Maťo and Tomáš. Maťo wants to break free from his current way of living, so he and Tomáš agree to one last score. They go to rob a gas station, but because of an unfortunate accident, Maťo becomes an accessory to murder. (Verleiher-Text)

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Deutsch Jakub Kroner weiß, was das junge Publikum interessiert. Er lernt die Welt kennen, in der sie leben, und weiß, wie man sie fesselnd in einem Film gestaltet. Er weiß, wie er die Figuren zivil wirken lassen kann. Er zeigt auch das Schöne in ihnen, obwohl sie der Abschaum sind. So einen reinen und ehrlichen Film finden Sie auch unter den tschechischen Filmen nicht, die sich sonst einige Level höher als die slowakischen befinden. Über das habe ich mich bei Money or Love gefreut. Was mich ein wenig stutzig gemacht hat, war der kindische Charakter des Films; seine Unfähigkeit, ältere Zuschauer*innen als Teenager anzusprechen. Kroner hat für die "kommerzielle slowakische Kinematografie“ ein großes Potenzial. Er kann ihr sogar irgendwann mal dominieren. Damit ihn aber auch erfahrene und ältere Zuschauer*innen ernst nehmen, muss er reif werden. ()

claudel 

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Deutsch Gesehen bei der Challenge Tour 2015: 30 Tage mit internationaler Kinematografie. Film Nummer 16 - Slowakei. Erst im Laufe des Films wurde ich mir bewusst, dass ich von Anfang an den Titel des gesamten Films falsch interpretiert hatte. Es geht primär nicht um Liebe, sondern um Geld. Die romantische Linie geht noch, sie wird recht sensibel verarbeitet, aber die dramatisch-krimiartige ist fast lächerlich und naiv. Der gesamte Film wirkte auf mich fast zu amateurhaft, schauspielerisch kam es mir so vor, dass wohl nur Kristina spielt, und sie spielt wirklich gut (wenn ich die Minirollen von Kostelný und Luknár außer acht lasse). Die Jungs kriegen das irgendwie nicht gebacken, sie sprechen lediglich ihren gelernten Text oder sie übertreffen sich in Vulgarismen. Das Ende unterstrich nur noch die gesamte Naivität. Sehr schwache drei Sterne, und da bin ich sehr gnädig. ()

Matty 

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Englisch This Slovak contribution to experiential cinema based on an immediate emotional response makes the age of its maker (24) too obvious, as he sometimes approaches it too aggressively, while at other times holding back in explaining what’s readily apparent. Unlike hybrid mash-ups for everyone and no one, however, Money or Love also makes it very clear who its target group is. Here life is approached as a computer game in which the power of individual experiences, mostly visceral (fighting, drinking, fucking) wins out over a solid narrative line. What’s important is not to aim for something in the long term, but to enjoy the present. For a film with adrenaline running through its veins, Money or Love unusually resolves a lot of situations through drawn-out dialogue scenes lasting several minutes, which could have been condensed into a few sentences with the right visuals. Kroner competently uses superficial flashiness to disguise the lack of action in the story. Nothing dramatic happens for a long time, as we generally just pleasantly spend time with the protagonists in their natural environment, but when something does happen, it’s spectacular, with music like that heard in the climax of a grand tragic opera. This wouldn’t be a love story if it didn’t equally take into account viewers of both genders. The weed-smoking scenes from the lair of a couple of friends are thus interspersed with scenes of gossiping from a girls’ dorm room so that the desired pairing-off can finally happen. The characters don’t complicate this painless content of a free Friday evening by pointing out to us obvious holes in the logic (the bizarre hotel episode), they don’t burden naïve declarations of love with deep thoughts on the finite nature of existence, and they express themselves with words and gestures that are primarily cool (whatever that word means). At least the vocabulary is natural when people of the same sex are talking to each other, with an unexpectedly large number of variations on “dick”, “cunt” and “fuck”, especially among the guys. Three reasons why I like the Slovak language. But I also found the rest of the film to be likable. Perhaps despite its simplicity, perhaps because of it. 60% ()

kaylin 

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Englisch I have to admit that I'm not exactly a big fan of the use of a modern camera that constantly dodges, nor am I a fan of handheld cameras, but in this case it works and enhances the individual scenes. Love has a good story and well acted characters, well within the scope of what was needed. ()