[-24 films]
"Poco dopo aver visto «Senso» di Luchino Visconti,
un altro film mi ha sconvolto: «La Strada» di Federico Fellini.
Lì ho fatto il mio ingresso magico nel mondo del cinema".
(Emir Kusturica)
Forse il modo migliore per fare un piccolo omaggio al cinema di Emir Kusturica sarebbe quello di scrivere semplicemente i titoli della sua filmografia. Punto e capo! Ma il fatto è che adoro molto il cinema di Emir Kusturica, amalgama perfetta di ambientazioni, generi, personaggi e storie, fantastici e fantasiosi, stimolatore di tante fantasie iconografiche, poetiche, musicali ed oniriche! Quindi questo piccolo I would like to pay tribute to the immense Balkan director to be read for what it is: a personal game of construction done by bringing together scattered pieces appeared on the Internet but also an invitation to enjoy some of that film director, leaving out these words and "opening" simply the heart to the images "Kusturichiane! Enjoy!
VERY SHORT ACCENNI BIOCINEMATOGRAFICI
Emir Kusturica, one of the greatest living filmmakers, was born in 1954 in Sarajevo.
After abandoning a promising career as a footballer, he studied four years of cinema at the Academy of Milos Forman in Prague. On returning to Sarajevo, works for television and made his first film: "Guernica" in 1978, "Come the Brides" in 1979 and "Coffee Titanic" in 1980. but his first success with critics and audiences is
"Do You Remember Dolly Bell?", 1981, reported as the best debut at the Venice Film Festival and four years later with "Daddy is on a business trip," Palma d'Or at Cannes. Taking advantage of his friendship with Milos Forman and the contribution of foreign capital for the production runs in his country: "Time of the Gypsies", prize for best director at Cannes in 1989. To make this film by the amazing improvisation and to describe in a realistic way the gypsy people, Kusturica, chooses as real actors Rom completely illiterate who can not even sign the contract and enrolled a football team in a neighborhood of fifty thousand gypsies in order to understand fully the way of life. Kusturica is a director of international fame after moving to New York and teaches film at Columbia University. Later in 1993 he made "Arizona Dream", Silver Bear and Special Jury Prize at Berlin Film Festival, film of rare beauty and poetic dream which covers almost all genres of American cinema. Then it's time for "Underground" in 1995, again Palme d'Or at Cannes. So a career with many awards! "Black Cat, White Cat," Silver Lion at Venice in 1998. III & IV of continuous invention, said of the overwhelming vitality of a community of gypsies with a twist achieved through a surreal and poetic history interpreted, once again, by real Roma in 2001 and the time for "Super 8 Stories", which tells the story of the "No smoking band providing the music, the same Kusturica. Other recent movies filmed by our film are: "Life is a miracle," the documentary on the world of "All the Invisible Children" and finally "Promise Me This." Diversity is also a career as an actor of the same to Kusturica in addition to being present in many of his films is also present in several films of other directors.
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Set in Sarajevo in the early '60, Is the story of sixteen year old Dino love education and its relationship with the father dying, left him his naive faith in Marxism, the socialist Yugoslavia and its present.
But in this ensemble film also count the conflict between the Orthodox community is the desire for novelty, expressed the determination of hypnosis, the transition towards a consumer society in the Sarajevo suburbs inhabited by a poor youth, the contrast between the old and new in the costumes with implications on the uses Muslims. It's enthralling musical motif
the song "24000 baci" Celentano. The Dolly Bell of the title is a stripper. Dino is a teenager who lives in Sarajevo in the early sixties, a time of great openness of Tito's Yugoslavia to the West and the neighboring Italy. His father, a Marxist intellectual, ultimately allowed him to live a poor youth, but much freer than that of previous generations, between friends a bit 'young bulls and the first, clumsy in love with a girl too shrewd. In Sarajevo, 1960 Dino is little more than a teenager with dreams of a West full of temptations just outside the former Yugoslavia.
His life spent among friends, a family that looks like a section of the party, hypnosis lessons and rock'n'roll. But a day comes Dolly Bell, a former stripper Italian film, a young prostitute, innocent, sweet, which if falls in love with her. And when Dolly Bell will be gone, nothing will be as before.
PAPA 'on business
"Dad is in business," is a sweet film, made up of scenes and very difficult to forget how to keep the sequence on the small fall in love with the daughter of Malik and doctor friend of Mesa. We are in Sarajevo in 1949 after the excommunication of the Cominform and the posting of the republic from Moscow to Tito, the "anti-Stalinist of Stalinism" is spreading and it is also paying Mesa, good man and regular patron of prostitutes, imprisoned without trial in a working area from where it comes out in 1952. To some extent the story is told through the innocent eyes of Malik, son of little sleep-walker and Mesa. He is the poetic core of a bittersweet comedy. Throw a cool breeze of Italian neo-realism in this film that offers a rich gallery of characters both sympathetic and hateful, along with a touch of humor and some moments of great emotional power. In the countryside around Sarajevo an old janitor singing Mexican songs to get some money to spend at the brewery in the country. When asked why Mexican song says, "Comrade, I want to be comfortable ... with the times we live." A Mesa is asking the question, the main protagonist of the film work and tireless traveler who, during the long days away from his family, he consoles himself with women of easy virtue. One of these fans cost him his freedom. In fact, the woman, probably in revenge for the failure of Mesa divorce from his wife, the police report for discussing the politics of the party newspaper. What happens to the protagonist is the normal practice in Yugoslavia after World War II, where the mere suspicion of being a dissident led to the loss of any right or in the worst cases to death by firing squad. The story is punctuated by the narrative voice of the younger son of Mesa, the small Malik, assisting, attempting to understand the oddities of adults. And assists the flow of events with a desire to drive in mind: be able to buy with their savings to the leather ball exposed in the shop downstairs.
The soundtrack of the film, as well as beautiful Balkan music, is composed of the radio commentary of football matches of Yugoslavia and the regime of radio news reported that the policy of the party and the ravings of Tito. A multi-faceted and colorful world where people are accustomed to any type of bullying and harassment by the regime, aimed essentially to survive with dignity.
Time of the Gypsies
natural Son of a gypsy, the young Penhan is forced to follow the leader in Italy, stealing and trafficking in children, dwarfs, sick. He loses his innocence, illusions, life. "The Time of the Gypsies "is a film of love, adventure and a Bildungsroman.
His tumultuous affair is the accumulation over a period of fifteen years, through ups and downs hour comic, now in swing between tenderness and bloody disgrace.
Kusturica hath been immersed in the world and culture of Roma with passion without benevolence, with a participation that does not exclude lucidity, with a sympathy that does not become idealized. Disconnected, redundant, visionary, innovative and full of inventions here are the terms that are well suited to this movie! So the young Penhan lives with his grandmother, little sister Daza and the weird uncle in a Roma camp in Yugoslavia. Having accompanied his sister to intervene in Ljubljana surgery for a malformed leg, is forced to follow Penhan Ahmed, the boss of the camp, in Italy. Here, after initial resistance, it will start to trade in children and forcing others into begging and prostitution, to supplant the functions of the chief Ahmed, in the meantime been the victim of a stroke that reduced him to a standstill. After killing Ahmed, Penhan will be killed in turn by his wife about this for revenge. Kusturica in his usual hyperbolic style of storytelling, in "The Time of the Gypsies" tells of a special training course that leads to the loss of innocence of the young Penhan, natural son of a gypsy grew up with affected by a portly grandmother. The film story, the film's plot can be divided into two quite distinct: the first is that of training adolescent life in the camp with the Roma in contact with individual families, in one dimension constantly suspended between dream and reality, in which even the initiation of love takes on the characteristics of fairy tales gypsy perceived in a dream and visionary, while the second is that of detachment from their family environment with the deception of a possible cure for small-Daza, who was born with a malformation of the leg Ahmed, the charismatic leader of the village, thanks to surgery promises to solve a famous Orthopaedic Ljubljana. The separation from family and the subsequent transfer to Italy to lay down a Penhan irrevocable descent into the abyss dell'abiezione and corruption in the wake of a real court of miracles led by Ahmed unscrupulously. So dreamy atmosphere of the first part takes over an oppressive atmosphere made by actions reprehensible conduct against children: the sale of children still in diapers, coercion into begging, rapes carried out with the aim of educating young prostitutes to the job. The characteristic light-heartedness of the village Rom replacing the oppressive cloak of innocence no longer recoverable. Penhan, in fact, invested directly by Ahmed, no more able to handle the situation which occurred after the heart attack begins to behave like a real boss unscrupulous to the point that the child will think of selling that the bride gave him because he suspects that is not the result of his suit. A progressive and irreversible descent to the cancellation of themselves, a "kind" of training on the contrary, a teenager who was only an aspiration: the healing of his sister, but that by virtue of a fraud because his sister, in reality , was transferred to Rome to beg exploiting the pain that causes his leg crippled, he threw that becomes evil necessity, to try to survive.
ARIZONA DREAM
Un giovane di New York di nome Axel è chiamato in Arizona dallo zio Leo che vuole insegnargli la fede nei pilastri del modo americano di vivere. Axel, invece, s'innamora di una bizzarra donna matura che potrebbe essere sua madre e con cui condivide il sogno di volare su un velivolo senza motore e fa amicizia con altri tipi bizzarri. Film stravagante, originale, un’onda di onirico surrealismo, “Arizona dream”, racconta l'America vista con gli occhi del cineasta jugoslavo, in cui Axel in questa “sorta” di paese delle meraviglie dovrebbe, per volontà dello zio fare il venditore di Cadillac, ma preferisce convivere con una donna molto più matura in una fattoria e costruire una rudimentale flying machine. Complicating the relationship is the daughter of the lady, devoted to suicide. In the meantime, we know a family of Eskimos with his dogs, and a fish that has both eyes on the same side.
She finally manages to die, just like the old uncle. But the fish is released cheerful air. America seems very complicated! And Kusturica exorcises complication with this vision of his inventions, his parables, fantastic and grotesque at the expense of rigorous style western, but in favor of fantasy for fantasy, which is never bad thing. Wonder for the eyes, heart and soul!
UNDERGROUND
In 1941, after the first German air raid Belgrade, begins the ascent of Comrade Marko, partisan, and black market dealer. In two years he and his friend impetuous Blacky accumulate a fortune and the fame of the heroes of the resistance until they convince the clan to take refuge in an underground and to manufacture weapons and other goods for the black market. There remain for fifteen years because, with the complicity of the actress Natalija, Marko makes everybody believe that the war continues and meanwhile became a pillar of the socialist regime of Tito. The deception lasted until 1961 and thirty years after they die a violent death Natalija, Marko, the innocent Jovan and his brother Ivan, the son of Blacky, the only survivor, returned to the underground, emerging through a tunnel on the Danube where he finds all the missing persons who have known: it is an island drifting on the River. It is difficult to squeeze in a definition of gender as a great visionary film "Underground." They spent a lot of adjectives to describe it: picaresque, excessive, redundant, an extraordinary, huge, very vibrant, glowing, baroque, sensual, metaphorical, allegorical, and so on. It could be said that suggests "Alice in Wonderland" rewritten by Kafka, with Hieronymus Bosch as a set designer and director of photography Francis Bacon! Makes me think to some paintings by Marc Chagall, the films of Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky and Ioselliani, as well as the cinema of Visconti and Vigo explicitly mentioned. E a tragi-comedy musical with music by Goran Bregovic Gypsy. A tale overflowing with wedding parties, rituals and collective bacchanal that form the main theme as well as to give the rhythm. "There was once a small town ..." could be the subtitle. Yugoslavia, of course. Kusturica says he is not a nostalgic film, but an obituary. Perhaps the country of which he tried to tell half a century of history has never existed. "Underground" is the dream of a nightmare, that of History and dirt of his time. The history of Yugoslavia since the Second World War to the civil war, the story of two friends, brothers in arms and fraud, the story of a woman's contention, the story of an underground manufacture of weapons. The story of a country surrounded by booming conflict of pressures and demands, perhaps the story of a country that has never really existed. "Underground" is a binge of color, dance, music, screams of pain, anger, joy and madness! Film loud, deafening, like a squabble continues, circus magnificent description of the tension in the Balkans. Pierces a tank of Belgrade Zoo and the image of animals that are released in different directions and irrational is very subtle but noticeable. Or the clinic for crazy people, where anything is possible, in which nothing is abnormal because in the end maybe we're all crazy. Significantly the final sequence with the banquet in which all the protagonists are in harmony with each other but sit in a portion of land that separates and floats on water. Visual orgy of wine, cellos, eroticism and screams like a rousing party, the funny, irrational, Yugoslavia!
BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT
Set among the Slavic Gypsies, "the only people that never changes is nearly what we call civilization without letting contaminated", funded by a consortium of European television networks, gypsy dialects spoken in , filmed in Slovenia, on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, "Black Cat, White Cat" is a wonderful fresco of humanity, overwhelming and vital, fun and cheerful. Grga Pitic and Zarja are two old friends not seen for twenty-five years. Il primo è un padrino gitano oltre che magnate delle discariche, il secondo è proprietario di un cementificio. Sono due ottantenni che nella loro lunga vita hanno commesso ogni genere di crimine rispettandosi sempre. Matko, il figlio di Zarije, è un incapace che ha bisogno di soldi per portare a termine un affare legato al mercato nero, precisamente un carico di petrolio e dato che non ha il coraggio di rivolgersi al padre, chiede aiuto a Grga Pitic facendogli credere che suo padre è morto. Grga Pitic è profondamente colpito da questa notizia e decide di recarsi sulla tomba del vecchio amico Zarije.
Matko, soddisfatto del suo inganno, cerca di far entrare nell'affare del petrolio Dadan Karambolo, un boss dei gangster gitani. Sotto l'effetto drugs. Matko is convinced that this deal will surely be in port. Unfortunately for him it is not, because the night the train arrived, it is put to the ground by strangers and the next day when he wakes up, discovers that the train is gone. Matko has not realized that he was cheated by the same Dadan and so must be subject to blackmail by this ruthless: to marry off his son Zare with Aphrodite, Dadan's sister, a woman so tiny as to be nicknamed Ladybird. But Zare is in love with Ida, a maid as fascinating as impetuous. Afrodita actually dreams of a gentle giant to marry. The wedding day the two young men rebel against that loveless marriage so she runs away in the confusion of the party organized a gypsy. Understood the deception, Dadan goes in search of her sister. Located in the middle of the countryside along with the granddaughter of Grga Pitic, Grga Staff, a very tall guy who had long been looking for a petite woman, sweet and affectionate as it was his grandmother. Ladybird is so small it could fit in his pocket, perfect for him. Between the two is shot the arrow of love! Dadan consent to the marriage because he was convinced by Grga Pitic that love is the only reason to marry. Zare also is happy so he can marry his beloved Ida. During the party dies Grga Pitic, Zarije back from the dead, Dadan is punished and Zare and Ida escape with an accordion full of money, after threatening the priest with a gun in front of only two witnesses: a black cat and a white cat!
SUPER 8 STORIES
In the crazy world of the Balkans is set and dramatic documentary on the band of Emir Kusturica: The punk band "No smoking", became famous for the soundtrack of "Black Cat, White Cat." The "No smoking band was founded twenty years ago and through albums, concerts and has toured throughout the history of Yugoslavia.
LA VITA E 'A MIRACLE
We are in Bosnia in the early nineties. Luka, Serbian engineer e sua moglie Jadranka si stabiliscono insieme al loro figlio Milios in un villaggio nel mezzo del nulla con l'intento di trasformarlo in un luogo turistico. Accecato dal suo ottimismo Luka non dà retta alle voci dello scoppio di una guerra imminente. Quando suo figlio Milos è fatto prigioniero e i militari serbi gli affidano in custodia un ostaggio musulmano: una bella ragazza di nome Sabaha, Luka finisce per innamorarsene. “Voglio continuare a credere che la vita è un miracolo perché i miracoli accadono davvero. La speranza nella nostra vita non deve essere sconfitta”. Infatti come afferma lo stesso Kusturica:”questo film è in fondo ottimista, insegna a vedere anche gli aspetti belli pur in mezzo alla tragedia”. “La Life is a Miracle "is a romantic and sentimental tale in which the darkness of the Balkan wars of the early nineties is innocently turned into a fascinating and charming.
A portrait of colors, dancing and excesses, all veiled by a fairytale atmosphere.
The film's main character, Luka is shy and optimistic, his relationship with war is that of a Pierrot who is torn from his fairy world and scrambled from the noise of bombs raining outside and the other characters represent important pieces of Kusturica a theater of the absurd, but an absurd poetic and at times moving. How can you talk about love during a war? How do live with a dog a cat? How to fall in love with a Bosnian of Muslim? Here's what seems to whisper Kusturica candidly with this latest masterpiece!
POSSIBLE CHIOS
thinking between the lines of Kusturica's film work the first things that come to mind are: art, history, war, children, grotesque images, racial discrimination, the eyes of the world baby, weddings, the figure of women with painful continuity of existence, the world of the Gypsies so poetic and dreamlike, magmatic and without constraints of time and space so closely with nature and animals and the inability to bring order in a cinema that is the poetics of disorder and the imbalance of strength and inability to stop and think or reflect in front of the kaleidoscope of images that are perhaps the distinguishing feature film by Emir Kusturica. And then we can not help but follow that balloon, or a bridal veil, and let him, the filmmaker of immense Sarajevo, would open his heart and continue to tell stories gleefully absurd messy ... thank Emir!
VERY SHORT ACCENNI BIOCINEMATOGRAFICI
Emir Kusturica, one of the greatest living filmmakers, was born in 1954 in Sarajevo.
After abandoning a promising career as a footballer, he studied four years of cinema at the Academy of Milos Forman in Prague. On returning to Sarajevo, works for television and made his first film: "Guernica" in 1978, "Come the Brides" in 1979 and "Coffee Titanic" in 1980. but his first success with critics and audiences is
"Do You Remember Dolly Bell?", 1981, reported as the best debut at the Venice Film Festival and four years later with "Daddy is on a business trip," Palma d'Or at Cannes. Taking advantage of his friendship with Milos Forman and the contribution of foreign capital for the production runs in his country: "Time of the Gypsies", prize for best director at Cannes in 1989. To make this film by the amazing improvisation and to describe in a realistic way the gypsy people, Kusturica, chooses as real actors Rom completely illiterate who can not even sign the contract and enrolled a football team in a neighborhood of fifty thousand gypsies in order to understand fully the way of life. Kusturica is a director of international fame after moving to New York and teaches film at Columbia University. Later in 1993 he made "Arizona Dream", Silver Bear and Special Jury Prize at Berlin Film Festival, film of rare beauty and poetic dream which covers almost all genres of American cinema. Then it's time for "Underground" in 1995, again Palme d'Or at Cannes. So a career with many awards! "Black Cat, White Cat," Silver Lion at Venice in 1998. III & IV of continuous invention, said of the overwhelming vitality of a community of gypsies with a twist achieved through a surreal and poetic history interpreted, once again, by real Roma in 2001 and the time for "Super 8 Stories", which tells the story of the "No smoking band providing the music, the same Kusturica. Other recent movies filmed by our film are: "Life is a miracle," the documentary on the world of "All the Invisible Children" and finally "Promise Me This." Diversity is also a career as an actor of the same to Kusturica in addition to being present in many of his films is also present in several films of other directors.
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Set in Sarajevo in the early '60, Is the story of sixteen year old Dino love education and its relationship with the father dying, left him his naive faith in Marxism, the socialist Yugoslavia and its present.
But in this ensemble film also count the conflict between the Orthodox community is the desire for novelty, expressed the determination of hypnosis, the transition towards a consumer society in the Sarajevo suburbs inhabited by a poor youth, the contrast between the old and new in the costumes with implications on the uses Muslims. It's enthralling musical motif
the song "24000 baci" Celentano. The Dolly Bell of the title is a stripper. Dino is a teenager who lives in Sarajevo in the early sixties, a time of great openness of Tito's Yugoslavia to the West and the neighboring Italy. His father, a Marxist intellectual, ultimately allowed him to live a poor youth, but much freer than that of previous generations, between friends a bit 'young bulls and the first, clumsy in love with a girl too shrewd. In Sarajevo, 1960 Dino is little more than a teenager with dreams of a West full of temptations just outside the former Yugoslavia.
His life spent among friends, a family that looks like a section of the party, hypnosis lessons and rock'n'roll. But a day comes Dolly Bell, a former stripper Italian film, a young prostitute, innocent, sweet, which if falls in love with her. And when Dolly Bell will be gone, nothing will be as before.
PAPA 'on business
"Dad is in business," is a sweet film, made up of scenes and very difficult to forget how to keep the sequence on the small fall in love with the daughter of Malik and doctor friend of Mesa. We are in Sarajevo in 1949 after the excommunication of the Cominform and the posting of the republic from Moscow to Tito, the "anti-Stalinist of Stalinism" is spreading and it is also paying Mesa, good man and regular patron of prostitutes, imprisoned without trial in a working area from where it comes out in 1952. To some extent the story is told through the innocent eyes of Malik, son of little sleep-walker and Mesa. He is the poetic core of a bittersweet comedy. Throw a cool breeze of Italian neo-realism in this film that offers a rich gallery of characters both sympathetic and hateful, along with a touch of humor and some moments of great emotional power. In the countryside around Sarajevo an old janitor singing Mexican songs to get some money to spend at the brewery in the country. When asked why Mexican song says, "Comrade, I want to be comfortable ... with the times we live." A Mesa is asking the question, the main protagonist of the film work and tireless traveler who, during the long days away from his family, he consoles himself with women of easy virtue. One of these fans cost him his freedom. In fact, the woman, probably in revenge for the failure of Mesa divorce from his wife, the police report for discussing the politics of the party newspaper. What happens to the protagonist is the normal practice in Yugoslavia after World War II, where the mere suspicion of being a dissident led to the loss of any right or in the worst cases to death by firing squad. The story is punctuated by the narrative voice of the younger son of Mesa, the small Malik, assisting, attempting to understand the oddities of adults. And assists the flow of events with a desire to drive in mind: be able to buy with their savings to the leather ball exposed in the shop downstairs.
The soundtrack of the film, as well as beautiful Balkan music, is composed of the radio commentary of football matches of Yugoslavia and the regime of radio news reported that the policy of the party and the ravings of Tito. A multi-faceted and colorful world where people are accustomed to any type of bullying and harassment by the regime, aimed essentially to survive with dignity.
Time of the Gypsies
natural Son of a gypsy, the young Penhan is forced to follow the leader in Italy, stealing and trafficking in children, dwarfs, sick. He loses his innocence, illusions, life. "The Time of the Gypsies "is a film of love, adventure and a Bildungsroman.
His tumultuous affair is the accumulation over a period of fifteen years, through ups and downs hour comic, now in swing between tenderness and bloody disgrace.
Kusturica hath been immersed in the world and culture of Roma with passion without benevolence, with a participation that does not exclude lucidity, with a sympathy that does not become idealized. Disconnected, redundant, visionary, innovative and full of inventions here are the terms that are well suited to this movie! So the young Penhan lives with his grandmother, little sister Daza and the weird uncle in a Roma camp in Yugoslavia. Having accompanied his sister to intervene in Ljubljana surgery for a malformed leg, is forced to follow Penhan Ahmed, the boss of the camp, in Italy. Here, after initial resistance, it will start to trade in children and forcing others into begging and prostitution, to supplant the functions of the chief Ahmed, in the meantime been the victim of a stroke that reduced him to a standstill. After killing Ahmed, Penhan will be killed in turn by his wife about this for revenge. Kusturica in his usual hyperbolic style of storytelling, in "The Time of the Gypsies" tells of a special training course that leads to the loss of innocence of the young Penhan, natural son of a gypsy grew up with affected by a portly grandmother. The film story, the film's plot can be divided into two quite distinct: the first is that of training adolescent life in the camp with the Roma in contact with individual families, in one dimension constantly suspended between dream and reality, in which even the initiation of love takes on the characteristics of fairy tales gypsy perceived in a dream and visionary, while the second is that of detachment from their family environment with the deception of a possible cure for small-Daza, who was born with a malformation of the leg Ahmed, the charismatic leader of the village, thanks to surgery promises to solve a famous Orthopaedic Ljubljana. The separation from family and the subsequent transfer to Italy to lay down a Penhan irrevocable descent into the abyss dell'abiezione and corruption in the wake of a real court of miracles led by Ahmed unscrupulously. So dreamy atmosphere of the first part takes over an oppressive atmosphere made by actions reprehensible conduct against children: the sale of children still in diapers, coercion into begging, rapes carried out with the aim of educating young prostitutes to the job. The characteristic light-heartedness of the village Rom replacing the oppressive cloak of innocence no longer recoverable. Penhan, in fact, invested directly by Ahmed, no more able to handle the situation which occurred after the heart attack begins to behave like a real boss unscrupulous to the point that the child will think of selling that the bride gave him because he suspects that is not the result of his suit. A progressive and irreversible descent to the cancellation of themselves, a "kind" of training on the contrary, a teenager who was only an aspiration: the healing of his sister, but that by virtue of a fraud because his sister, in reality , was transferred to Rome to beg exploiting the pain that causes his leg crippled, he threw that becomes evil necessity, to try to survive.
ARIZONA DREAM
Un giovane di New York di nome Axel è chiamato in Arizona dallo zio Leo che vuole insegnargli la fede nei pilastri del modo americano di vivere. Axel, invece, s'innamora di una bizzarra donna matura che potrebbe essere sua madre e con cui condivide il sogno di volare su un velivolo senza motore e fa amicizia con altri tipi bizzarri. Film stravagante, originale, un’onda di onirico surrealismo, “Arizona dream”, racconta l'America vista con gli occhi del cineasta jugoslavo, in cui Axel in questa “sorta” di paese delle meraviglie dovrebbe, per volontà dello zio fare il venditore di Cadillac, ma preferisce convivere con una donna molto più matura in una fattoria e costruire una rudimentale flying machine. Complicating the relationship is the daughter of the lady, devoted to suicide. In the meantime, we know a family of Eskimos with his dogs, and a fish that has both eyes on the same side.
She finally manages to die, just like the old uncle. But the fish is released cheerful air. America seems very complicated! And Kusturica exorcises complication with this vision of his inventions, his parables, fantastic and grotesque at the expense of rigorous style western, but in favor of fantasy for fantasy, which is never bad thing. Wonder for the eyes, heart and soul!
UNDERGROUND
In 1941, after the first German air raid Belgrade, begins the ascent of Comrade Marko, partisan, and black market dealer. In two years he and his friend impetuous Blacky accumulate a fortune and the fame of the heroes of the resistance until they convince the clan to take refuge in an underground and to manufacture weapons and other goods for the black market. There remain for fifteen years because, with the complicity of the actress Natalija, Marko makes everybody believe that the war continues and meanwhile became a pillar of the socialist regime of Tito. The deception lasted until 1961 and thirty years after they die a violent death Natalija, Marko, the innocent Jovan and his brother Ivan, the son of Blacky, the only survivor, returned to the underground, emerging through a tunnel on the Danube where he finds all the missing persons who have known: it is an island drifting on the River. It is difficult to squeeze in a definition of gender as a great visionary film "Underground." They spent a lot of adjectives to describe it: picaresque, excessive, redundant, an extraordinary, huge, very vibrant, glowing, baroque, sensual, metaphorical, allegorical, and so on. It could be said that suggests "Alice in Wonderland" rewritten by Kafka, with Hieronymus Bosch as a set designer and director of photography Francis Bacon! Makes me think to some paintings by Marc Chagall, the films of Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky and Ioselliani, as well as the cinema of Visconti and Vigo explicitly mentioned. E a tragi-comedy musical with music by Goran Bregovic Gypsy. A tale overflowing with wedding parties, rituals and collective bacchanal that form the main theme as well as to give the rhythm. "There was once a small town ..." could be the subtitle. Yugoslavia, of course. Kusturica says he is not a nostalgic film, but an obituary. Perhaps the country of which he tried to tell half a century of history has never existed. "Underground" is the dream of a nightmare, that of History and dirt of his time. The history of Yugoslavia since the Second World War to the civil war, the story of two friends, brothers in arms and fraud, the story of a woman's contention, the story of an underground manufacture of weapons. The story of a country surrounded by booming conflict of pressures and demands, perhaps the story of a country that has never really existed. "Underground" is a binge of color, dance, music, screams of pain, anger, joy and madness! Film loud, deafening, like a squabble continues, circus magnificent description of the tension in the Balkans. Pierces a tank of Belgrade Zoo and the image of animals that are released in different directions and irrational is very subtle but noticeable. Or the clinic for crazy people, where anything is possible, in which nothing is abnormal because in the end maybe we're all crazy. Significantly the final sequence with the banquet in which all the protagonists are in harmony with each other but sit in a portion of land that separates and floats on water. Visual orgy of wine, cellos, eroticism and screams like a rousing party, the funny, irrational, Yugoslavia!
BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT
Set among the Slavic Gypsies, "the only people that never changes is nearly what we call civilization without letting contaminated", funded by a consortium of European television networks, gypsy dialects spoken in , filmed in Slovenia, on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, "Black Cat, White Cat" is a wonderful fresco of humanity, overwhelming and vital, fun and cheerful. Grga Pitic and Zarja are two old friends not seen for twenty-five years. Il primo è un padrino gitano oltre che magnate delle discariche, il secondo è proprietario di un cementificio. Sono due ottantenni che nella loro lunga vita hanno commesso ogni genere di crimine rispettandosi sempre. Matko, il figlio di Zarije, è un incapace che ha bisogno di soldi per portare a termine un affare legato al mercato nero, precisamente un carico di petrolio e dato che non ha il coraggio di rivolgersi al padre, chiede aiuto a Grga Pitic facendogli credere che suo padre è morto. Grga Pitic è profondamente colpito da questa notizia e decide di recarsi sulla tomba del vecchio amico Zarije.
Matko, soddisfatto del suo inganno, cerca di far entrare nell'affare del petrolio Dadan Karambolo, un boss dei gangster gitani. Sotto l'effetto drugs. Matko is convinced that this deal will surely be in port. Unfortunately for him it is not, because the night the train arrived, it is put to the ground by strangers and the next day when he wakes up, discovers that the train is gone. Matko has not realized that he was cheated by the same Dadan and so must be subject to blackmail by this ruthless: to marry off his son Zare with Aphrodite, Dadan's sister, a woman so tiny as to be nicknamed Ladybird. But Zare is in love with Ida, a maid as fascinating as impetuous. Afrodita actually dreams of a gentle giant to marry. The wedding day the two young men rebel against that loveless marriage so she runs away in the confusion of the party organized a gypsy. Understood the deception, Dadan goes in search of her sister. Located in the middle of the countryside along with the granddaughter of Grga Pitic, Grga Staff, a very tall guy who had long been looking for a petite woman, sweet and affectionate as it was his grandmother. Ladybird is so small it could fit in his pocket, perfect for him. Between the two is shot the arrow of love! Dadan consent to the marriage because he was convinced by Grga Pitic that love is the only reason to marry. Zare also is happy so he can marry his beloved Ida. During the party dies Grga Pitic, Zarije back from the dead, Dadan is punished and Zare and Ida escape with an accordion full of money, after threatening the priest with a gun in front of only two witnesses: a black cat and a white cat!
SUPER 8 STORIES
In the crazy world of the Balkans is set and dramatic documentary on the band of Emir Kusturica: The punk band "No smoking", became famous for the soundtrack of "Black Cat, White Cat." The "No smoking band was founded twenty years ago and through albums, concerts and has toured throughout the history of Yugoslavia.
LA VITA E 'A MIRACLE
We are in Bosnia in the early nineties. Luka, Serbian engineer e sua moglie Jadranka si stabiliscono insieme al loro figlio Milios in un villaggio nel mezzo del nulla con l'intento di trasformarlo in un luogo turistico. Accecato dal suo ottimismo Luka non dà retta alle voci dello scoppio di una guerra imminente. Quando suo figlio Milos è fatto prigioniero e i militari serbi gli affidano in custodia un ostaggio musulmano: una bella ragazza di nome Sabaha, Luka finisce per innamorarsene. “Voglio continuare a credere che la vita è un miracolo perché i miracoli accadono davvero. La speranza nella nostra vita non deve essere sconfitta”. Infatti come afferma lo stesso Kusturica:”questo film è in fondo ottimista, insegna a vedere anche gli aspetti belli pur in mezzo alla tragedia”. “La Life is a Miracle "is a romantic and sentimental tale in which the darkness of the Balkan wars of the early nineties is innocently turned into a fascinating and charming.
A portrait of colors, dancing and excesses, all veiled by a fairytale atmosphere.
The film's main character, Luka is shy and optimistic, his relationship with war is that of a Pierrot who is torn from his fairy world and scrambled from the noise of bombs raining outside and the other characters represent important pieces of Kusturica a theater of the absurd, but an absurd poetic and at times moving. How can you talk about love during a war? How do live with a dog a cat? How to fall in love with a Bosnian of Muslim? Here's what seems to whisper Kusturica candidly with this latest masterpiece!
POSSIBLE CHIOS
thinking between the lines of Kusturica's film work the first things that come to mind are: art, history, war, children, grotesque images, racial discrimination, the eyes of the world baby, weddings, the figure of women with painful continuity of existence, the world of the Gypsies so poetic and dreamlike, magmatic and without constraints of time and space so closely with nature and animals and the inability to bring order in a cinema that is the poetics of disorder and the imbalance of strength and inability to stop and think or reflect in front of the kaleidoscope of images that are perhaps the distinguishing feature film by Emir Kusturica. And then we can not help but follow that balloon, or a bridal veil, and let him, the filmmaker of immense Sarajevo, would open his heart and continue to tell stories gleefully absurd messy ... thank Emir!
by Mariano Lizzadri
