This film has no plot. It has a quasi-documentary character, and while it succeeds at its objective - depicting the depravity a lot of youths in Serbia have been reduced to, it fails as a film. A film needs to tell a story. It needs to go beyond stating that things are bad. It needs to take our characters on a journey, and they need to get somewhere. Finally, the audience needs to leave with a sense of fulfillment, even if the film is heavy and generates unpleasant emotions. Watching 'Clip', one constantly hopes the film will start telling a story. But it never does. The ending comes as a huge disappointment, at least for those who maintained hope until that very point that the film would provide payoff for their emotional investment. Of course, the filmmakers can hide behind the claim that it was all very deliberate, that the absence of story is there to create some kind of 'realism', or to accentuate the emptiness and meaninglessness of the universe it depicts. But that's completely misguided. A well made film always has a good story at its heart.

What can we say about this movie? From a country that was huge cinema- titan back in the day (60s-70s) Serbian cinema is reduced to this?

Majority of this movie is pretty bad. First of all, it's really boring. 100 min movie tend to drag itself and it looked like it was 5h long. There's no plot. My apologies to director\writer of this movie, but you're not a "smart" writer if you leave plot shallow as this one and just decide to throw in bunch of explicit sex scene to shock your audiences. All it does is make your "story" more shallow. There's no real message in this movie except "teen girls of modern Serbia are idiots".

Next, we come to settings. There are like two sets in this flick. Girls house, and one other building that was used pretty much for everything (School, hospital, classroom, other girls\guys apartments). I swear, I lost track of time and space watching this movie. Every set looks way to similar.

Characters: None of the characters are interesting. They are all pretty shallow and undeveloped. Director tried to make some sympathies for lead character buy throwing (unnecessary) subplot of girl's sick father, but everything pretty much falls on it's back since by the time that happens (somewhere at the end of the movie),lead character pretty much ruins every part of her life that you have zero sympathies for her and you really don't care what happens to her next.

on the positive side, acting was surprisingly good for bunch of unknown actors\actresses. Lead actress Isidora Simijonovic was pretty good, it's not her problem that script and the other aspects of the movie are horrible. She did a descent job for a unknown actress and some scenes would be even worse if it wasn't for her acting skills. She's also pretty (which is never a bad thing). Support cast of older actors are also good. Sadly, we would probably never heard of her again, which is a shame.

Some direction and editing were nicely spliced. There's noting outstanding, but basic textbook direction was fine. Now, the scenes themselves are not very interesting. Clips from girl's life are not very interesting and sex scenes themselves were not all that shocking at all (they were just explicit in terms of what's seen on screen, porn-like).

In the end, sadly, it's just another one of "sh(l)ock" movies from Serbia.

my main question is, how the heck did this got financed by Serbian Ministry of Culture? Did they even read a script? Maybe it was connection that worked behind the scenes, who knows?

Well quite the explicit diaries and quite the disturbing ones. The version I saw was uncut for sure. And some may ask (rightfully?) if it is necessary to see fellatio and penetration so vividly. The movie probably would have worked with less of that, the message would still be there. But it does so because it wants to shock and wants to stand out from other movies.

It also is obviously a point that people will bring up when talking about this. But shock value aside there is more to this. Because if you are after - well nudity and intercourse, there are other movies to satisfy that need. If you are shocked by these things though (for whatever reasons and not meant judgementally in any way),you better stay away from this.

Underneath that surface then, is a drama. It is about expectations (not just in Serbia),about youth, about growing up, trying to satisfy others and fulfill oneself. No pun intended. There is a lot to discover and the performances are quite exhilarating. This is quite the hardcore performance - on more ways than one, spotlighting sensible issues, more often getting it right than not. Still quite draining (pun galore I guess)