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...diplomats haggled for the next two hours over the language in the joint statement. Back in Washington, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger kept a phone line open to the palace. Clinton, who was watching the new film Welcome to Sarajevo in the White House family quarters, slipped away from the screening twice for updates on developments in Geneva. Albright demanded that the adjective "unconditional" be inserted in one phrase spelling out Iraqi acceptance of U.N. inspections. In another paragraph, the Americans added that the team would look for ways to make its "work more effective"--diplomatic code words for hunting...
Welcome to Sarajevo is painfully alert to this bitter contradiction. You read it first in Dillane's wary eyes, the weary set of his shoulders, the willed affectlessness of his voice. His Henderson is based on a real British TV journalist named Michael Nicholson, who covered 15 wars in 25 years, and the actor carries the weight of that experience, the need somehow to shift it, most affectingly...
...sticks with it. Before he quite realizes what he's doing, Henderson is adopting Emira (played by Emira Nusevic, herself a child of the war), getting her out of the country via a terrifying bus ride through country controlled by Serb guerrillas, then voluntarily, dangerously returning to Sarajevo a year later to complete legal adoption, ensuring that she never has to make this return journey...
...TITLE] WELCOME TO SARAJEVO...
...more serious holiday films come with a doctor's prescription: take Amistad (or Kundun or Welcome to Sarajevo), it's good for you. But these dosages are suitable mainly for movie critics and Academy members. Real people go to the kind of fare they pay to see the rest of the year: comedies (Jerry Maguire in 1996), fantasies (101 Dalmatians) and thrillers (Scream). You can expect Flubber, Tomorrow Never Dies and--why not?--Scream 2 to make similar noise this year...