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Life Is a Miracle

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Engineer Luka (Slavko Stimac) is building a scenic rail line linking a small Bosnian town to Serbia. He loves his high-strung wife, Jadranka (Vesna Trivalic), and is proud of his son, Milos (Vuk Kostic), an aspiring soccer star. But chaos strikes when his wife runs off with a cymbal player, the Balkan conflict breaks out and Milos becomes a soldier and then a POW. A plan by officials to free Milos by trading him for a captive Muslim woman is complicated when Luka and the captive fall in love.

Critics Reviews

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Enrique Buchichio Uruguay Total 05/23/2006
3/5
Kusturica se repite a s mismo y entrega una alocada comedia sobre el amor, la locura y la guerra. Go to Full Review
Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall 02/07/2005
3/5
A superb story is drowned out by Kusturica's zany and chaotic style Go to Full Review
Boyd van Hoeij european-films.net 07/30/2004
Kusturica's warm characters inhabit a world that is both absurd and at the same time strangely akin to our own. Go to Full Review
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01/11/2016 I love Kusturica's chaotic style, the madcap physical comedy (a lot of it here provided by a middle-aged woman, which is fun in itself). The way that people knock things over, fall down a lot without care, and are casually, harmlessly violent with one another is very entertaining. The lengthy runtimes don't do it any favours, though; by the end you can end up just exhausted and ready to leave all the zaniness behind, instead of desiring more. And the plot is a little trite and predictable. But I liked it. See more 04/02/2015 Kusturica can make from something as terrible as the war in the Balcanes a tender story about dreams, love, people's habits with some comedy too. Some moments the film are some kind surrealistic. Special mention for the mule "Milica" that is protagonist of some peak moments of the film. See more 08/25/2014 Beauty and Madness in the Balkans... Miracle Of The Belles--Developed characters, delicate metaphors, beautiful imagery... One of those rare movies that left you breathless!! See more 04/05/2014 Le début est un peu folklobordelique, mais ensuite ça devient un beau film See more 02/08/2014 a rollercoaster of emotions, he makes you cry when you are laughing and laugh when you're crying See more 02/10/2013 Humorous, romantic, sad and sometimes absolutely crazy situations, all combined perfectly in order to picture the chaos, the absurd world in which the lovable characters of the film try to make a living. The film also offers a great opportunity to make some research about the Bosnian war (1992-1995), one of the four wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Engineer Luka (Slavko Stimac) is building a scenic rail line linking a small Bosnian town to Serbia. He loves his high-strung wife, Jadranka (Vesna Trivalic), and is proud of his son, Milos (Vuk Kostic), an aspiring soccer star. But chaos strikes when his wife runs off with a cymbal player, the Balkan conflict breaks out and Milos becomes a soldier and then a POW. A plan by officials to free Milos by trading him for a captive Muslim woman is complicated when Luka and the captive fall in love.
Director
Emir Kusturica
Producer
Alain Sarde, Maja Kusturica, Emir Kusturica
Screenwriter
Ranko Bozic, Emir Kusturica
Genre
Comedy, Drama, War
Original Language
Serbian
Runtime
2h 34m