Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- harrowing
- austere
- intimate
- serious viewing
- mental health awareness discussion
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as a powerful, tightly controlled, deeply distressing debut that transforms a family suicide crisis into compelling drama.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The family struggle to prevent Damir's suicide unfolds over approximately 24 hours.
Damir attempts to take his own life while Bruno and their family try to save him and navigate emergency care.
The film focuses on family interactions, emergency intervention, and mental-health distress in an intimate contemporary setting.
The plot explicitly involves mental illness, family intervention, and emergency mental-health care.
Films like Safe Place, and why
The Son
intimate family drama centered on an acute mental health crisis and suicide prevention
Mass
emotionally devastating psychological drama about family members confronting suicidal despair
The Father
austere European drama using compressed time and domestic tension to examine mental illness
Movie Details
- Director
- Juraj Lerotić
- Release Date
- 2023-08-24
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (15)
Cast
- Juraj Lerotić
- Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov
- Goran Marković
- Damir Klemenić
- Biljana Torić
- Neven Aljinović-Tot
- Jasmin Mekić
- Sunčana Zelenika Konjević
- Mario Knezović
- Katarina Bistrović-Darvaš
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Klassiki
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Safe Place about?
- Over one harrowing day, a Croatian family races to keep a suicidal man alive while confronting the limits of love and emergency care.
- What is Safe Place like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Safe Place as brisk, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Safe Place violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Safe Place as mild.
- What did critics think of Safe Place?
- Critics broadly regard the film as a powerful, tightly controlled, deeply distressing debut that transforms a family suicide crisis into compelling drama.
- Which films are like Safe Place?
- Films with a similar feel include The Son, Mass, and The Father.
- How long is Safe Place?
- Safe Place runs 102 minutes.
- Where can I watch Safe Place?
- In United States, Safe Place streams on Klassiki.
