This is probably one of the greatest movies in ex-Yugoslavia in the last 20 years and maybe the best from brilliant director Goran Markovic (with "Nacionalna klasa" and "Variola vera"). Markovic also wrote the script that is vaugely based on factual happenings.
The film blurs the line between fiction and reality. The actors perform made-up plays with no connection with the grime reality they confront in the war that just had started.
This film is nasty anti-Serbian propaganda that shamelessly floats the most ridiculous and outrageous anti-Serbian tropes lifted from fake news narratives about the war. It is literally unwatchable.
I just came back from the cinema where I saw this film. I rarely go to the cinema but since this is our Oscar nominee I thought that it is worth watching.
Warning: I am commenting this film from a Serbian point of view.
I saw this film at Cinequest, a film festival in San Jose, California. I liked it very much and found it to be a very moving anti-war film.
The movie is a 100 % truth about war in former Jugoslavia , and it's appsurdit'y . Just dont listen opinion's from people who have comment this movie with negative stars , because they are in fight with reality !
If this film was made 10 years ago, maybe it would have worked. If it was taped as a theater play, maybe it would work.
The film's heart is in the right place - wanting to make a movie about the absurdity of war and the arbitrary nature of nationalism (and the ultra- absurdity nature of ultranationalism). There is no right side, no good guys in white hats vs bad guys in black hats, it's way more complex than that.
