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Finally! Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival
Underground
'Wild... Feverish... Brilliant.' 'Spectacular... Visionary... Breathtaking.' -- New York Times -- Evening Standard
"Emir Kusterica has always brought an epic scope to the human comedy. Still, this latest effort staggers the imagination with its sheer physical expanse and thematic ambition. On one level, Underground is a Jules and Jim-like triangle with Belgrade best friends Blacky (Lazar Ristovski) and Marko (Miki Manojlovic) forever competing for the woman (Mirjana Jokovic as Natalija) who loves and resents them both. On another, it's a careening tour through three Yugoslavian eras, each defined against separate forms of fascism: Nazi occupation during WWII, the high Cold War period's Tito-centrism and crumbling civil-war ruin from within. Leapfrogging forward between massive set pieces at two or three decades per jump, Underground is a Rube Goldberg machine churning out slapstick, violence, spectacle, grotesquerie and the odd lyricism. [The film] occasioned anger from some quarters for its failure to indict one (that is, the Serbian) or another partisan culprit... Kusterica's lens locates a chaos... compelling for its restless, destructive motion. This is a carnival, an asylum vision, a fantasy of contradictions too loaded to be considered in any clear light of reason..." -- Dennis Harvey, San Francisco Film Festival.
(France/Germany/Hungary, 1995, subtitles, 160 min.)
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