Monday, December 10, 2018

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)


Fox Lorber
Directed by Srđan Dragojević
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Fox Lorber)

Two childhood friends in Bosnia, one Serbian and the other Muslim, grow up and open an auto garage together. However, when the Bosnian war breaks out they find themselves enemies on opposite sides. While under heavy attack, one of them ends up trapped in a tunnel with his fellow soldiers and an American reporter. The other is part of a group that taunts them, and worse, from outside. This goes on for weeks, with the trapped soldiers slowly becoming demoralized and running out of food and water. They grow increasingly desperate until coming up with a plan to escape, but only a handful will survive. Complex drama that might require some brushing up on the politics of the Bosnian War to completely comprehend. Unflinching in its portrayal of the horrors of war, it's a tough watch.

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