If it was not official after ‘Summer Fruits’ (2019), ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Nine Months’ (both from 2020), now it became clear that Josip Lukić’s own family-themed documentary phase (2018 ‘Momsy’ and 2019 ‘The Rex Will Sail In’) is over
Nine Months premiered at the Checkers competition of Zagreb Film Festival, highlighting the irony that Lukić playing himself as the protagonist here once again wears the festival T-shirt in every frame of the film.
For a filmmaker who profited greatly from creating the manic feeling, Lukić does equally well with the low-key depression.
However autobiographical in its core, Summer Fruits is, after all, a fiction film in which Lukić demonstrates that he can also work with actors.
