Wanderlust
Izlet
Synopsis
Wanderlust (Izlet) is a Serbian film directed by Nenad Pavlović, based on the novel of the same name by the renowned painter, film director, and writer Mića Popović, and adapted from a screenplay by Jovan Popović. It was shot in black and white, stylized in the manner of Black Wave films, the Yugoslav film movement of the 1960s.
The authors’ idea is to use film language to pay tribute to great epochs of Serbian culture: Zenitism in literature, Mediala in painting, and the Black Wave in cinema. It also honours the authors Mića Popović and Živojin Pavlović. A special artistic, and also personal, mark comes from their sons: screenwriter Jovan Popović and director Nenad Pavlović.
Wanderlust (Izlet) is a poetic and existentialist story about a young artist, Toma, who sets off on a journey down a river, trying to escape a totalitarian society and a personal tragedy that has struck his family. During this mystical voyage, he faces a series of challenges that change his view of the world, of art, and of his own identity.
