For Klára: Enjoyably amoral (review)

Olmo Omerzu combines an initiatory story, suspense, family chronicle and scathing humor in a film centered on a teenager suffering from eating disorders and the collateral damage that this causes among her family.

Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu likes nothing more than deciphering human nature and intra-family relationships, as he notably proved with Family film, the last of his films that we had the opportunity to discover in French theaters in 2018. His fifth feature film is no exception but, as always, he finds a new angle, a new entry point to use it. The viewer is invited to enter into David’s private life, eager to introduce his two children to the Adriatic coast, witness to the beginnings of his relationship with their mother, from whom he is separated. But also to reconnect the weakened ties with Klara, his elder by seventeen years, anorexic.

For Klára very tactfully addresses illness, the distress of those around her, the ambivalent feelings of the little brother who sometimes feels – and rightly so – a little too neglected. Especially since the director manages to capture the first romantic emotions of a teenager who is gradually regaining a taste for life, but also the flaws of a family who will not hesitate to use lies to try to heal their ills in a story of great finesse. Because by avoiding all Manichean ease and shortcuts, we enjoy the amorality distilled here, linked to the reaction of characters who try to save themselves or their loved ones without becoming tacticians, without thinking about the next move. A film also served by a flawless casting

Anne Lenoir

By Olmo Omerzu. With Barry Ward, Dexter Franc, Antonin Chmela… Duration: 1h50. Released April 8, 2026