Cabaret Balkan

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Audience Member Interrelated midnight stories about a bunch of unlikeable Balkan swines unfold simultaneously in the 1998 winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival. A heavy dose of tragedy, black humor, exaggerated drama, jealousy, crime and a rebellious youth rising against the system imposed over a long-time repressed nation explode (sometimes literally) while we are just taken aboard an unusual ride of unpredictable proportions and unbelievable moments featuring the endless, multifaceted idiocy of humankind. It's like a humble mashup of <i>Slacker</i> (1991), <i>Pulp Fiction</i> (1994) and Kusturica's chronological disorder, but with a smaller scope. It never mattered how theatrical or fantastical it began to get; at the end of the day, irrevocably, everything felt very human. 86/100 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member 100 minutes full of bloody delirums and explosions that the director would contraband as a complaint against the war in Yugoslavia or the alienation of the contemporary man...Unbearably boring after 30 minutes...Really not good sign for critics that most of them liked it... Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member "balkanlar dunyanin anusudur... surekli sicarlar"... ilginc bir ozelestiri... Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Another character-driven comedy by Paskaljevic that shows how the Balkans are a fucked up place. I should know, I live in Greece, right? More dark than his previous movies and smart as always. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Very well-acted and written, but directed with a heavy hand and shot in a way that makes me claustrophobic. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member one of those movies with no story to follow just short scenes focussing on different characters living in the city of belgrade (i had to look this up to discover it was in serbia!!) none of the characters are nice people and it's quite violent which i guess is an effect from all the wars; nobody really knows who to trust and everyone lashes out. the train scene freaked me out, but it was quite funny at times with the boxing, and the river scenes. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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