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Joy Ride (2000)

Joy Ride poster
Original title
Usfahrt
Directed by
Martin Rengel
Genre
drama film
Country
Switzerland
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows the events around the murder of a young woman in Zurich. It uses a stripped-down, documentary-like style to tell the story.

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What happens

Joy Ride (in Swiss German: Usfahrt) is a 2000 Swiss drama film written and directed by Martin Rengel that followed Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 manifesto. It is classified as the 14th dogme movie. Joy Ride employs a very realistic, near-documentary style, with a story based on the homicide of a 19-year-old girl in Zürich, Switzerland in 1992. The incident attracted a great deal of media coverage in Switzerland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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