I Love You (2005 Croatian film)

Krešo is a successful young copywriter who works for a marketing company in Zagreb. He largely ignores his girlfriend Ana, preferring to spend time with his high school friends in rounds of alcohol, drugs and sex.[2]

When one day Krešo causes a death of a woman while driving under the influence, and gets infected with HIV from a subsequent blood transfusion, his life is turned upside down. He is left by his girlfriend, fired from his job, and gradually abandoned by his friends until he meets a good-natured waitress...[2]

• Krešimir Mikić – Krešo
• Ivana Roščić – Waitress
• Ivana Krizmanić – Ana
• Zrinka Cvitešić – Squash girl
• Nataša Janjić – Nataša
• Bojan Navojec – Žac
• Leon Lučev – Mario
• Angelo Jurkas – Robi
• Ana Stunić – Escort girl
• Božidar Orešković – Krešo's father
• Biserka Ipša – Krešo's mother

In a favorable 2007 review in The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis describes the film as a "bleak drama [which] is an unusually perceptive scrutiny of absence and emptiness", emphasized further by gray and pastel tones of Branko Linta's cinematography.[3]

Croatian Film Association's database of Croatian films describes I Love You as a film with a modern style, dealing with an interesting and somewhat intriguing topic, but notes its one-dimensionality and predictability, arguing that characterization and depth were sacrificed in favor of the film's visual style.[1]

Ronnie Scheib from Variety called the film uneven, with perfect tech credits, music, ambience and visuals, good delivery of leading actors, but generally unconvincing plot.[4]

• I Love You at IMDb