Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2001)

This is one of those films that make my head go -wow- for hours afterwards. I hadn't seen any Kusturica film yet and didn't quite know what to expect apart from lively gypsy tales, and this was far far more than just that. It deals with the way the communist/socialist regime fools the people of Yugoslavia to believe something that isn't true. 'There are lies in everything'. This repeats when the film rolls into the wars of the 1990s. Same history over and over again, shown by the last title on screen: 'Ovaj pric nema kraj' (or similar, meaning that this story takes no end). The film shows also that any side could be bad or good, and that many evil actually comes from within. Watch this film and get equally stunned!
9 out of 10 (I never rate 10s)