浮生幸福路（保加利亞/英國/2019/劇情）
A DOSE OF HAPPINESS (BULGARIA/UK/2019/DRAMA)
DOZA SCHASTIYA
語言：保加利亞語
Language: Bulgarian
劇介
渴求幸福的Vesala早早就結婚，但她20歲時婚姻就破裂了。Vesela與先生離異之後在夜店當服務生，認識了年紀大她一倍的Ivan，她帶著3歲女兒Valya與Ivan同居。某天，迷人的Joro出現在店裡，帶著Vesela到酒吧後面的房間抽煙。第二天早上，Vesela在戒斷狀態中醒來，從此對海洛因上癮，Joro則成為Vesela的玩伴和情人。Vesela的姊姊Bistra帶她去看無照醫師，但沒能治好她的藥癮。Vesela被Ivan趕出去之後，帶著女兒搬去與姊姊同住，在一家時髦的餐廳工作，並隱瞞自己的藥癮。Joro會去餐廳找她，兩人到餐廳後面的樹林裡用藥。某天下午，Vesela和Joro在高速公路附近的小山坡上，她忽然覺得自己孤零零一個人⋯⋯
導演：雅娜蒂托娃
編劇：雅娜蒂托娃，維塞拉托特娃
製片：亞歷山大艾力克西夫，尼基史托伊奇科夫
製作公司：Reason8 Films, No Blink Pictures
演員：瓦倫蒂娜卡洛列娃，迪米塔尼科洛夫，亞歷山大艾力克西夫
影展與獎項：
雅娜蒂托娃
• 2020年保加利亞電影節最佳首部作品金玫瑰獎
• 2020年保加利亞電影節最佳影片金玫瑰獎入圍
• 2020年荷蘭海邊國際電影節電影與文學獎最佳改編影片入圍
• 2020年荷蘭海邊國際電影節青年評審團獎最佳影片入圍
• 2020年荷蘭海邊國際電影節最佳影片入圍
Film Festival, 2020.
其他
• 2020年索非亞國際電影節最佳保加利亞長片最佳影片入圍，雅娜蒂托娃，亞歷山大艾力克西夫，尼基史托伊奇科夫
• 最佳攝影金眼獎（與《Bad Girl》共同獲獎）
• 2019年保加利亞電影賣座亞軍
影評：
• 雅娜蒂托娃帶來沈穩的首部執導作品，一個關於藥物成癮的警世故事。
• 「《浮生幸福路》直接切入藥物成癮的問題，成功引起人們對這個話題的關注，成癮者的數量在歐洲逐年增加，但很少被公開討論…⋯」
• 「保加利亞電影《浮生幸福路》藉由傳統敘事手法，以誠懇和同理心，引導觀眾了解影片的議題⋯⋯」
Synopsis
Vesela's search for happiness led her into an early marriage that went cold by the time she was 20. Breaking away from her husband, Vesela takes a job waiting tables at a night club, where she meets Ivan, twice her age, who takes her in with her 3-year-old daughter Valya. One day the angelic Joro turns up in the club and takes Vesela into a bar back room for a smoke. She wakes up the next morning in withdrawal; and later learns her life is now all about heroin which brings her relationship with Ivan to the breaking point. Joro becomes Vesela's playmate and lover. Vesela's sister Bistra takes her to a quack doctor, but the remedy fails. When Ivan kicks her out, Vesela and Valya move in with Bistra and Vesela takes a job at a posh restaurant where she tries to keep her habit a secret. She meets Joro and get high in the woods behind the restaurant. One afternoon, with Joro, on a hill near the highway, Vesela suddenly finds herself alone...
Director: Yana Titova
Writers: Yana Titova, Vesela Toteva
Producers: Aleksandar Aleksiev, Nicky Stoichkov
Production Co: Reason8 Films, No Blink Pictures
Cast: Valentina Karoleva, Dimitar Nikolov, Aleksandar Aleksiev
Awards & Festivals:
Yana Titova
• Best Debut Award, Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival, 2020.
• Best Film Nominee, Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival, 2020.
• Best Film Adaptation Nominee, Film and Literature Award, Film by the Sea
International Film Festival, 2020.
• Best Film Nominee, Youth Jury Award, Film by the Sea International Film Festival,
2020.
• Best Film Nominee, International Student Jury Award, Film by the Sea International
Film Festival, 2020.
Others
• Yana Titova, Aleksandar Aleksiev and Nicky Stoichkov, Best Film Nominee, Best
Bulgarian Feature Film, Sofia International Film Festival, 2020.
• Best Cinematography, The Golden Eye (Shared with ‘Bad Girl’).
• 2nd highest grossing Bulgarian film, 2019
Reviews:
• Yana Titova’s self-assured fiction debut is an engaging cautionary tale about addiction.
• “…A functional, straightforward film, A Dose of Happiness succeeds in shining the spotlight on drug addiction, a topic that is rarely discussed publicly in Eastern Europe, although the number of addicts is increasing year upon year…
• "A Dose of Happiness does not break any new ground in Bulgarian cinema, but it does offer an impressive honesty and empathy that may disarm the audience"
