Roy Stafford on Parallel Mothers ( Madres paralelas, SpainР’В 2021).John David hall on The Promise ( La promesse, FranceР’В 2020) Roy Stafford on The Promise ( La promesse, FranceР’В 2020)Р”В¬hristinegeraghty on The Promise ( La promesse, FranceР’В 2020).

Sidney Poitier: A Raisin in the Sun (USР’В 1961).

Р’РЋViva! 28, Spanish and Latin AmericanР’В Festival.

Р’РЋViva! 28 #1: La chica nueva (ArgentinaР’В 2021).

Р’РЋViva! 28 #2: Contactado (Peru-Brazil-Norway-Venzuela 2020).

Р’РЋViva! 28 #3: El Р“РЋrbol rojo ( The Red Tree, ColombiaР’В 2021).

Р’РЋViva! 28 #4: La estrella roja ( The Red Star, ArgentinaР’В 2021).

This is powerful film-making and draws upon the absurdist vein of Catch 22Р’В and MASH Р’В itРІР‚в„ўs a bleakly occasionally comic portrayal of the war that is brilliantly made and uncomfortable to view from a political standpoint. Does that make the film racist? Not necessarily as it could be argued that this is a film from the Serbian perspective no doubt being surrounded by others who want to kill you is a terrifying experience and the enemy will seem monstrous. Krstic fails, however, to note that this is in itself racist РІР‚вЂњ the enemy as the monstrous Other. The Muslims who surround the militia are entirely dehumanised, Krstic himself points out that this is drawing of tropes of HollywoodРІР‚в„ўs representation of the Vietnam war where РІР‚ВCharlieРІР‚в„ў was an invisible presence in the jungle. That said I did find the film disturbing. One of the ways this is done is through the casting of Velimir Bata Zivojinovic as the unitРІР‚в„ўs commander Р’В Zivojinovic starred in many Partisan films that were important in the myth-making of TitoРІР‚в„ўs Yugoslavia. While itРІР‚в„ўs easy to see why the film appears to be pro-Serbian, as we rarely get any other view than the militiaРІР‚в„ўs, Krstic also demonstrates the filmРІР‚в„ўs nuances principally that the ragtag bunch of militia are not portrayed as likeable characters and in this the film is also challenging SerbiaРІР‚в„ўs national mythology. In an excellent article Igor Krstic ( ) notes that although Croatian critics dubbed the film pro-Serbian (Croatia was also embroiled in the war against Serbs/Serbia) it was also the first Serbian film to be successful in neighbouring countries after the war ended.

Unsurprisingly the film divided opinion when it was release.

Much of the narrative features flashbacks of how the disparate members of the militia joined up from the viewpoint of a number of them recuperating, after the event, in hospital. After scene setting, with a newsreel about the Brotherhood and Unity (such irony runs throughout the film) tunnel first opened in the 1970s, most of the plot takes place 20 years later in the dilapidated and unfinished tunnel as the militia seek shelter from the Bosnian army. The main protagonist is Milan who, in pre-war years, ran a business with his Muslim mate. Its complex structure focuses on a band of Bosnian-Serb militia who, amongst other things, burn Muslim villages. The abomination of war is accentuated in civil war Pretty Village, Pretty FlameР’В (original title translates better as Beautiful villages burn beautifully) covers the post-Yugoslavian war of the 1990s that foreshadowed the current РІР‚ВconflictРІР‚в„ў between РІР‚Вthe westРІР‚в„ў and Muslims.

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