which the charm of the essayist resides. If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. 442 Mad genius? Narcissistic artist? An entertainer who can?t resist throwing in the kitchen sink? Viewers will make up their own definition for Ned?ad Begovicz, the director and central character of the aptly titled Totally Personal , which has much to say about what it?s like to like in Sarajevo, as seen through the quizzical eyes of his narrator-protagonist. Starting with his birth in 1958, Begovicz fills us in on what it was like to have the first TV on the block, to take loyalty oaths to Yugoslavian leader Tito and the Motherland, to get married to Amina, and to decide to make a no-budget film with a digital camera. All this and much, much more is narrated with self-deprecating humor in wonderfully accented English. The filmmaker?s precarious means, far from being a handicap to his storytelling, seems to inspire him to ever greater heights of imagination. He introduces whimsical theories about body parts and why the Serbian Chetniks started a war in Bosnia and what the U.N. forces were really doing during said war (answer: counting the number of shells fired). The film?s financial and technical limitations finally converge with the serious shortages that Bosnians experienced during the war?including no water, bread, electricity, or gasoline. Bosnians? innate creativity, Begovicz seems to say, has seen them through under all circumstances, just as his own imagination has created what he modestly