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Directed by:
Goran PaskaljevicCinematography:
Milan SpasicCast:
Nebojsa Milovanovic, Jelena Trkulja, Lazar Ristovski, Mira Banjac, Danica Ristovski, Zinaida Dedakin, Bora Nenic, Mirela Naska, Ana Stefanovic, Ratko Miletic (more)Plots(1)
Honeymoons is set in contemporary Albania, Serbia, Italy and Hungary. We follow the fortunes of two young couples, one Albanian and the other Serbian, who leave their respective home countries to break from their overbearing families and the past, seeking a better life in Western Europe. But migrating to Europe is not always what they dream it might be and problems ensue at the border. Trouble awaits the Albanian couple when they arrive in a southern Italian port and takes over when the Serbians cross the Hungarian border by train. Like many young people from the Balkans, they find themselves as second-rate citizens and being made to pay for the mistakes of previous generations. With no word of the relations between Albania and Serbia or of the current political context in the Balkans, the filmmaker strives to draw out commonalities between the two very similar societies, without sparing criticism of the EU. (official distributor synopsis)
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It is too bad about the overly raw form, because that is what sometimes unnecessarily takes the viewer out of the plot (instead of pulling him in). Otherwise, this parallel Albanian-Serbian journey to freedom represents an engaged current political drama in an optimal form. There's context, creative perspective, very plastic characters and critical urgency. Paskaljević has capitalized on years of experience and is steadfast with honor in an extremely difficult genre – he does not push the viewer anywhere, and yet affects emotions without much awkwardness. At this year's Karlovy Vary festival, a pleasant revelation amongst the politically themed films. [IFF KV 2010]
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