Dobra žena
Directed by:
Mirjana KaranovicCinematography:
Erol ZubcevicComposer:
Dejan PejovicCast:
Hristina Popovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Jasna Đuričić, Bojan Navojec, Marko Nikolic, Boris Isakovic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Isidora SimijonovicPlots(1)
Milena is a middle-aged wife and mother ensconced comfortably behind a gate in an upscale suburb of Belgrade. She quietly tends to her looks, dutifully cooks and entertains, and meets her friends for choir practice. She makes love with her husband and they socialize jauntily with a group of old friends. But unsettling realities are beginning to seep into Milena's consciousness and disrupt her ordered world. One day while cleaning, she happens upon a videotape that incriminates her husband in horrific war crimes. A Good Wife is the story of how this secret reverberates in Milena's life and eventually changes her. (Sundance Film Festival)
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51st KVIFF - good, enough for three stars. A classic European drama like many others.
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51. KVIFF – If we are talking about Balkan movies that are also telling stories from the war or are connected with war, it can be assumed that it will be an absolute blast. In the 1990s, the people of Balkan actually committed such atrocities in the name of God that any dictator could envy them. However, the movie A Good Wife isn’t so rough, fortunately. Even though… it depends on how you look at it. Today, the boundary line for tolerability of violence in movies is in a different place than where it used to be. But maybe A Good Wife managed to captivate me so much precisely because it portrays a very serious topic in a very human way and from the point of view of another person. And when I thought that the story was being unnecessarily stretched and started to bore me a little, the finale, which was flawless, came. And it left me with an empty hole in my head, forcing me ponder how I would react to such a discovery.
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