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...EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES. In all of this violent and tragic Yugoslav film, there is not a single happy gypsy, but despite many flaws and inconsistencies of style, it depicts in muted, melancholic color the odd, anachronistic ways of an all-but-forgotten people...
...Happy Gypsies, there is not a single happy gypsy-the title is an ironic quote from a traditional tzigane tune. The actors who play the gypsies may be elated now, however, for this Yugoslav movie has been nominated for an Academy Award. With good reason. Though it is full of flaws and inconsistencies of style, it depicts with melancholy and muted color the odd, anachronistic ways of an all-but-forgotten people...
...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...
...Yugoslav heroine of Love Affair jounces and flounces down the streets of Belgrade, ogled by passers-by who admire both the clothing without and the body within. The oglers are only half justified. The body is beautiful-as the film demonstrates later when it bares almost every splendid millimeter for inspection. But the dresses are frumpy and styleless; the huge, block-heeled shoes look like Minnie Mouse's discards. As with much Eastern European couture, what appears hip at home may seem antique elsewhere, and the Yugoslav wardrobe in this case is matched by some equally square film fashions...
Dedijer is a highly-respected academic with previous appointments at several British and American universities, including Harvard. His books include The Beloved Land and Yugoslav-Albanian Relations, which the U.S. government itself has republished. In 1954, he was expelled from Yugoslavia's Central Committee of Communists for his defense of free speech--and Rusk has now picked up the Central Committee's persecution...