In this strange, haunting film, the Bosnian war keeps bubbling up from where it has been buried
The 38-year-old Aida Begić is the Bosnian film-maker who won the Grand Prix at the Critics Week in Cannes four years ago for her debut feature, Snow. Now she is in the Un Certain Regard section with this followup film, which she has written, produced and directed. Children of Sarajevo – the original title, Djeca, means "children" – is set in the present-day city, in which the ghosts of a terrible past loom all around. The movie does not entirely tie up its narrative threads, but the strange, potent atmosphere makes up for this.
Rahima (Marija Pikic) is a Muslim woman in her twenties who works long hours in a restaurant kitchen to provide for the teenage brother Nedim (Ismir Gagula) who lives with her, but who is drifting into bad ways. They are orphans of the 90s Bosnian war,...
The 38-year-old Aida Begić is the Bosnian film-maker who won the Grand Prix at the Critics Week in Cannes four years ago for her debut feature, Snow. Now she is in the Un Certain Regard section with this followup film, which she has written, produced and directed. Children of Sarajevo – the original title, Djeca, means "children" – is set in the present-day city, in which the ghosts of a terrible past loom all around. The movie does not entirely tie up its narrative threads, but the strange, potent atmosphere makes up for this.
Rahima (Marija Pikic) is a Muslim woman in her twenties who works long hours in a restaurant kitchen to provide for the teenage brother Nedim (Ismir Gagula) who lives with her, but who is drifting into bad ways. They are orphans of the 90s Bosnian war,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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