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The Great Water

2005 · 1h 33m Drama
Directed by Ivo Trajkov

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Overview

An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.

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71%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Pic's balance of emotional truth in the hands of a talented cast and charged by Medencevic's lensing and Kiril Dzajkovski's powerfully moody score, reps a bold step forward for Balkan cinema.

Robert Koehler, Variety
Fresh

It is an impressionistic, sometimes fascinating, sometimes frustrating, window into a culture and country that was long walled off from the West.

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh

All of it, Chingo and Trajkov suggest, goes into shaping a Macedonian national identity uneasily poised between religious longing and ideological resolve.

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

You leave this film intrigued by its aspiration and not likely to forget the world it's introduced you to.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

Portentous melodrama.

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly

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