Like a bad habit, it enters people. The words are from a Kosovo farmer who, we learn, was later to lose everything he had during the most recent stages of the civil war in the Balkans. Director Mitko Panov, from Macedonia, served his one-year stint in Marshal Tito's federal army in 1981 and then went to New York to live. Almost two decades later, Panov returned to his homeland with a video camera to look up the men who had been in his barracks. Newly incarcerated with a drug problem, Slim has got to learn the ropes on the inside fast if he's going to navigate furtive prison protocol and the trafficking gang system.
Penitentiary warfare is as subtle as any Victorian drawing room.
Kath's presence unsettles Dezmond, who will stop at nothing to maintain his mother's harsh regimen for the guests, as well as her strict rules about her children falling in love with other staffers or residents. Don't let those stop you from checking into Hotel Splendide . Still, when toward the end, Mr. Peach is on the top of his roof raving and brandishing a Union Jack, the film successfully makes its transition from anarchic comedy to social satire. Like John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon , she has a strange longing to visit Wyoming. Terry Kiser has an amusing little turn as the most loathsome diner manager since Bud Cort in Heat .