Ripa Hits the Skids(1993)

Ripa Hits the Skids follows a dissolute filmmaker struggling through a week of self-destruction. A heavy drinker with long hair and bigger ambitions than talent, Ripa's previous projects were banned for excessive sex and violence. Perpetually hungover and adrift, he haunts the local bars in search of connection and meaning. When he meets Tiina, a bank teller, a fragile possibility emerges—though whether Ripa can pull himself together long enough to seize it remains uncertain. The film captures his downward spiral with unflinching honesty, painting a portrait of artistic failure and moral decay in bleak, unglamorous detail.