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Ivana Primorac

Inline with the Festival's intention to emphasise the importance of film professions that are not overly exposed by the media, the choice of the Retrospective at the 62nd Pula focuses on the master of make-up Ivana Primorac. The impressive filmography and cooperation with leading names in the world of film is a sufficient reason for the presentation of her work and achievements.

Selected films:

That Summer of White Roses, Rajko Grlić (1989.)
The War Zone, Tim Roth (1999.)
The Hours, Stephen Daldry (2002.)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton (2007.)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Stephen Daldry (2011.)

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THAT SUMMER OF WHITE ROSES
Drama, Croatia/UK, 1989 (censored on July 11, 1989.), 103 min

Directed by: Rajko Grlić
Written by: Borislav Pekić, Rajko Grlić, Simon MacCorkindale, based on the novel „Defence and the Last Days“ by Borislav Pekić
Production company: Jadran film /Amy
Cinematography: Tomislav Pinter
Editing: Damir F. German
Costume design: Vjera Ivanković
Music: Brane Živković
Cast: Tom Conti, Susan George, Rod Steiger, Alun Armstrong, John Gill, John Sharp, Geoffrey Whitehead, Miljenko Brlečić, Slobodan Šembera, Nitzan Sharron, Vanja Drach

It's the last summer of the Second World War in Yugoslavia, but so far nothing much of this has touched Andrea. He's the lifeguard who has never had to save a life and as such is a well-liked figure of fun. Yet, as far as he is concerned, the river is good to him, giving, and not taking. However, the evils of war are not far away. Andrea agrees to take care of two refugees, the widow of a partisan and her son. Andrea and his friend Martin are uneasy... The water devil, who lives near Martin's house in the faery waters, is becoming restive,and this means trouble. Andrea, however, is delighted when he saves his first drowning man. But just whose life has he saved?

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THE WAR ZONE
Drama, Italy/UK, 1999, 98 min

Directed by: Tim Roth
Written by: Alexander Stuart
Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey
Editing: Trevor Waite
Costume design: Mary-Jane Reyner
Music: Simon Boswell
Cast: Freddie Cunliffe, Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Kate Ashfield, Lara Belmont, Aisling O'Sullivan, Colin Farrell, Annabelle Apsion

Tom is an awkward and troubled 15-year-old boy whose isolation increases when his family moves from London to a remote community in the Devon countryside. Tom, his 18-year-old sister Jessie his father, and his pregnant mother live in close quarters in a small cottage; they sometimes bathe in the kitchen, and they have grown used to casual nudity around the house. But one day, Tom sees his father in a sexual embrace with Jessie. He tries to discuss what he's seen with her, but she refuses to talk about it…

THE HOURS
Drama, UK, 2002, 114 min

Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Written by: David Hare, Michael Cunnigham
Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey
Editing: Peter Boyle
Costume design: Ann Roth
Music: Philip Glass
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, George Loftus, Charley Ramm, Sophie Wyburd, Lyndsey Marshal, Linda Bassett, Christian Coulson, Michael Culkin

This is the story of three women living in different time periods of the twentieth century all linked by a work of literature. In 1923 Virginia Woolf starts to write her novel 'Mrs Dalloway' whilst struggling to cope with depression and mental illness. In 1951 Laura Brown, a dissatisfied housewife contemplates her own life after reading 'Mrs Dalloway'. In 2000 editor, Clarissa Vaughan, struggles to look after her ex-lover, Richard Brown, who is losing his battle with Aids.

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SWEENEY TODD: THE DEAMON BARBER OF FELLET STREET
Drama/musical, SAD, 2007, 116 min

Directed by: Tim Burton
Written by: John Loga, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Editing: Chris Lebenzon
Costume design: Colleen Atwood
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly

In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.

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EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
Adventure/drama, USA, 2011, 129 min

Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Written by: Eric Roth, prema knjizi Jonathana Safrana Foera
Produced by: Scott Rudin
DOP: Chris Menges
Editing: Claire Simspon
Costume design: Ann Roth
Cast: Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, Zoe Caldwell, Max von Sydow, John Goodman

A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Dizalica

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The programme DIZALICA was successfully launched on the 61st PFF, designated first of all for young film lovers aged 16 to 21. In accordance with their age, the films are selected respecting their quality, but also their subject matter dealing with problems of growing up, friendship, first love, relationship with parents etc. the programme is also open for those older than 21 or for those feeling like 21.