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Beyond

1970 · 1h 17m Drama
Directed by Jože Gale

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Two stories - two truths are confronting. Former Partisan Miha is trying to tell a shocking story from the war times in the modern day disco club, where young people are having fun in a crazy rhythm of music with alcohol and drugs... Amongst the many issues this film explores are the following questions: Does the desire for pleasure and amusement always gain the upper hand against moral convictions and man's sense of responsibility and guilt? What things are worth sacrificing your life for? Are moral second thoughts and the search for the truth stronger than man's endless search for instant pleasure? Is the experience of war truly that which turns a boy into a man? And does love truly redeem death?

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Rotten

This trashy, gaudy, sound-stage vulgarity about low life among the high life is as funny as a burning orphanage.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

Any movie that Jacqueline Susann thinks would damage her reputation as a writer cannot be all bad. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls isn't -- which is not to say it is any good.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

A psychedelic wow that serves up the free love, plunging necklines, androgynous boys, and lusty lezzies of the era with a narcotized abandon.

Michael Musto, Village Voice
Fresh

With his first movie for a major studio, Meyer simply did what he'd been doing for years, only bigger and better.

Time Out

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