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"Give Me a Promise"
Director: Emil Kusturica
Actor: Uros Milovanovi
"Give Me a Promise" has a smooth plot, scattered with wit, wit, and style It is more like a pure absurd comedy. The dramatic character and the quirky stories capture the audience's laughter time and time again.
Kusturica continued to present exaggerated farce with his personal branding and strong style. He tried to surpass previous works such as "Life is a Miracle", telling a story of finding true love.
———Robert Koehler ("Variety")
A candy-colored visual carnival feast, every frame in the movie is full of musical energy, and a warm atmosphere is permeated from beginning to end, like a polka that never stops.
———James Rocchi ("Cinematical")
"There used to be a country called Yugoslavia..." Hearing such words, it is easy to think of Yugoslavia, which no longer exists today, Emil Kusturica ( Emir Kusturica and his "Un-derground" (Un-derground) will also run out of the hearts of movie fans. Compared with other directors who showed the internal contradictions and bloody conflicts of the former Yugoslavia directly, Kusturica was better at shooting the film wildly, with amazing carnivals and celebrations. The water is turbulent, but the unspeakable sadness is like the dark surging underneath. Disasters fail to make strong people lose the courage to live, this is what Kusturica has always wanted to say.
In "Promise Me This" (Promise Me This), Kusturica goes further on the road of comedy, with funny and humorous accumulations, and there are many scenes of singing and dancing. On the contrary, the critical content of standing on a high position in the past has been weakened; but through the TV news screens, the characters in the play ridicule the Twin Towers, the Americans, and World War II. The black wisdom of the previous works is still visible. The original meaning of the title of "Give Me a Promise" is "will" or "appointment." The 12-year-old boy lived in a remote country with his grandfather. One day, his grandfather told his grandson that he had no time and asked him to bring his mother at home. The cow went into the city to sell it, bring a souvenir, buy a Nicholas icon, and find a wife back. Speaking of it, the film is an out-and-out "Small Tubaozi Entering the City". The glamorous world outside made the little boy's eyes shine. He met unreliable gangsters, two brothers with weird behaviors, and a young and beautiful beauty in heart. Blind and accidental, with a little cleverness and luck, finally came. A happy ending for the wedding and funeral.
Regardless of whether it fell apart or not, how bloody cruel he suffered, Kusturica's eyes never left the former southern lands. The film uses the perspective of a small farmer to bring out a laugh about urban civilization. The city in the film is Užice in the mountains of western Serbia. "Give Me a Promise" has a smooth plot, scattered with wit and wit, and the pursuit of style is more like to create a pure absurd comedy. Some singing and dancing passages are full of strong national colors and full of romantic sentiment. The "Cannonball Trapeze" who has been flying around in the sky carries the magical reality of Kusturica's works. Game-like scenes of gunfights, sex-related spoof content, coupled with the appearance of cows, turkeys and other animals, the film is so maddeningly crazy--this is also what it was dissatisfied with at the 60th Cannes Film Festival main reason.
The gang boss, the coquettish female teacher, and the grandpa who loves mechanical invention have all worked with Kusturica before. The soundtrack came from the hand of Kusturica’s son—he also starred in the film that big brother (one of two brothers of very different shapes), holding a machine gun and firing wildly, telling the little boy about this cruel world Need love. The love in the film includes grandparents and grandchildren, love between men and women, and year-end love. Although it sounds a little serious, love is where the tenacious vitality of this nation lies.
"Give Me a Promise" is like a bowling ball in the erratic trajectory after rolling down the fairway. The dramatic character and the quirky story capture the audience's laughter time and time again. If you haven't been exposed to Cushman style, "Promise to Me" will bring joy beyond imagination. [Southern Capital]
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