{"id":13873,"date":"2011-02-15T18:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2012-04-08T22:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T06:20:51","slug":"tilt-viktor-chouchkorgermanybulgaria-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=13873","title":{"rendered":"Tilt (Viktor Chouchkor, 2010): Germany\/Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Addie Rosales<\/a>. Viewed at The 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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The foreign film Tilt<\/a>, directed by Viktor Chouchkor is a German\/Bulgarian love story filled with echoes of Romeo and Juliette-like plot threads when it comes to lovers who are up against \u201c the powers that be\u201d who are driven to keep them apart.\u00a0 This film takes us to Bulgaria, where the majority of the film takes place, and Germany in the early 1990\u2019s where there is political turmoil, strong class oppression, and corruption in law enforcement, making it the perfect setting for a suspenseful love story. The title Tilt derives from a popular pinball game amongst a group of friends who dream of opening their own bar which would carry the same namesake.\u00a0 Tilt could also infer the way situations can\u201ctilt\u201d one\u2019s choices and the way reality is viewed.<\/p>\n

In order to attain their dream, friends, Stash (Uavor Bahnov), Gogo (Ovanes Torosian), and Angel (Ivaylo Dragiev) must come by their funding with illegal transactions that involve the blackmarketing of pornographic videos.\u00a0 Eventually, they get caught hustling the porn and get put on probation that entails sitting in silence in a small room for many hours each day. \u00a0 Previous to their daily routine of attending detention, main character, Stash fell for a mysterious and beautiful girl named Becky (Radina Kardjilova) and begins a relationship with her.\u00a0 The downfall in this relationship falls in the relationship between Becky and the lead enforcement officer, Colonel Katev (Georgi Staykov) who is in charge of the sentencing of Stash and also happens to be Becky\u2019s father.\u00a0 At this point, relationships become more complex.\u00a0 Some become stronger like the love between Becky and Stash despite the threats and consequences they face and some become weaker like the relationships between the original group of friends by the way personal gain along with fear <\/em><\/strong>seduces them.\u00a0 Loyalties start to become \u201ctilted\u201d and shift as corruption and emotions get entangled.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed this movie because of the great acting, and even though I knew it was a love story, the \u00a0unpredictable story line.\u00a0 It was also refreshing to see an intriguing movie that did not have to rely on too much violence to carry out the plot line or believe that that is the way to keep an audience engaged.\u00a0 The cinematography was well done as it was very key to adding to the mood of the characters and the film as a whole.\u00a0 It was a well told story that explored relationships and the way circumstances can affect them and was well rounded out in a believable manner by the way each character\u2019s story line resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Addie Rosales. Viewed at The 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The foreign film Tilt, directed by Viktor Chouchkor is a German\/Bulgarian love story filled with echoes of Romeo and Juliette-like plot threads when it comes to lovers who are up against \u201c the powers that be\u201d who are driven to keep them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}