War is never a walk in the park

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2002)

Danis Tanovic's movie about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The story is centered around three soldiers, one serb and two bosnians, who get caught up together in a trench in no man's land between the two fighting sides. To complicate matters, one of the bosnian soldiers is lying on top of a bouncing mine and cannot be moved without it exploding.
The movie won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, in my opinion a great choice. At times this is a pretty lighthearted story with a lot of short lines and situations that make you laugh, but in the end, the feeling we are left with is still that war is never funny and is always meaningless.
I loved the portrayal of the U.N and their inability to really make a difference, overall the acting was good, and the camera and scenery makes this film great to see.