found drama

How to summarize
fifty years of Slavic woe?
Ask Kusturica.

I am not sure how else to say this about Underground: It’s fucking brilliant.

Clocking in at around three hours, it’s a bit of a commitment, file-wise — but well worth it. The interplay of symbols is deep and rigorous and hits a chord even if you’re not fully familiar with the history of the region. (I’m still trying to work out some of the semiotics behind the monkey and the wandering band…) This film is sprawling and surreal and absurd and darkly comic … while simultaneously throwing us into light-hearted moments of sentimentality as well as slippery sultry seductiveness. At any rate: strongly recommended.

currently playing: Ministry “Lay Lady Lay”

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