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Ohjaus:
Emir KusturicaKäsikirjoitus:
Emir KusturicaKuvaus:
Milorad GlusicaSävellys:
Stribor KusturicaNäyttelijät:
Aleksandar Bercek, Uros Milovanovic, Marija Petronijević, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Stribor KusturicaJuonikuvaukset(1)
Tsane lives with his grandfather and their cow Cvetka on a remote hilltop. Except for their neighbour, Bossa, they are the village’s only inhabitants. One day, Tsane’s grandfather tells the young man that he is dying. He makes Tsane promise to go over the three hills into the nearest town and sell Cvetka at the market there. With the money, he must buy a religious icon, then anything he really wants and finally, he must find a wife to bring home. In town, Tsane easily fulfils the first parts of his promise, but how is he going to get home with a wife before his granddad dies? That’s when he meets Jasna, who is late for school as usual. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
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Kusturica rides on the rails that he had already laid out in his previous films, such as Black Cat, White Cat, or Hungry Heart, meaning it is a highly stylized Balkan slapstick, underpinned with emotional musical rhythms and filled with a bunch of eccentric characters, who are not really from our world but are highly entertaining. Indeed, Promise Me This doesn't reach the quality of the cult film Black Cat, White Cat, as its screenplay starts off a bit slow, and especially with such a large number of characters, scenes, and motifs, some may seem too outrageous, unsympathetic or dysfunctional. Similarly, these motifs are no longer original from Kusturica, but if we were to criticize Woody Allen for his plethora of neurotic intellectuals, then his filmography would greatly thin out and compared to Woody, Kusturica still holds back a lot in terms of the quantity of his productions. On the other hand, the film is still highly entertaining for me, and unlike a lot of pretentious pseudo-intellectual boredom that characterizes a substantial part of festival films, this one is functional. Moreover, I don't know how Kusturica does it, but his completely improbable love constellations between very incompatible partners really affect me. I don't know where he finds these likable women, but just like Hungry Heart, I was rooting for Tsane the whole time, hoping his romance would work out. Overall impression: 90%.
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