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...other works of Bosnian director Emir Kusturica include the acclaimed "Time of the Gypsies" and "When Father Was Away on Business." Made in 1992, "Arizona Dream," has the potential to be a hip dissection of American pop culture. But Kusturica is more interested in exploiting the film's visceral visual power. His shots of the American Southwest achieve the finesse of Gus Van Sant's landscapes. Iggy Pop's musical score enlivens the hazy atmosphere...
...documentary assumes a mostly chronological account of the devastation which Serbian aggression has wrought upon the Bosnian nation. It is a piece of unabashed propaganda for the Bosnian side, leaving out entirely the Croats and neglecting to examine the motivations of individual Serbs, beyond the infamous leaders like Serbian President Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Serb militia in Bosnia...
Levy and a group of French intellectuals shot the film between September 1993 and March 1994. The filmmakers secured the protection and cooperation of the Bosnian Army, which enabled them to shoot scenes in Bosnian trenches. What the Serbs lose in presentation, the Bosnians gain...
...hardened faces of Juka and Enzo, young Bosnian men who fight to defend their cities, compellingly convey the war's harsh and premature aging of Bosnia's youngest and strongest. One woman, an intellectual, steadfastly applies her make-up as a way of denying control to the war. "I will not be a victim," she says in a private moment. A Serbian soldier calmly describes murdering and raping civilians. His voice never falters and his eyes stare dully while a cigarette burns carelessly in his hand...
Composer Osborne, 46, is a professor of music at Edinburgh University whose association with the city began during his student days. Since the outbreak of the Bosnian war, he has been committed to keeping alive Sarajevo's cultural diversity, returning several times to conduct musical workshops for the city's children. His opera Sarajevo was performed in London in August. A political allegory with biting satire, Evropa takes place on a drifting ocean liner. Its anxious young passengers want to know their destination, but alas, the ship is being steered by Madame Europa, a faded grande dame who is more...