Fresh
The screenplay is blunt and to the point, and the performances are subtly tinged with a surreal comic edge.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Overview
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Director and cast
- Goran Paskaljević Director
- Lazar Ristovski as Profesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantic
- Bojana Novaković as Marina
- Petar Božović as Inspektor
- Tihomir Arsić as Pipovic
- Nebojša Glogovac as Dr Milo Petrovic
- Nebojša Milovanović as Bolesni mladic
- Slavko Štimac as Otac slepe devojke
- Dragan Jovanović as Golub
- Mira Banjac as Baba kockarka
- Viktor Savić as Ilija
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
These five stories set in post-Milosevic Serbia are unrelated beyond their general air of disillusionment, providing little satisfaction individually or as a whole.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
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