US Review on “Bal-Can-Can” – Like Kusturica, but with its own Taste
(Vreme, 11.04.2006) - Big Macedonian film hit “Bal-Can-Can” is about the local capability to face with darkness, representing an absurd material on how fear can be banished, reads “Variety” about Darko Mitrevski’s film, which is shown throughout US cinemas.
The newspaper stresses that following his film debut “Goodbye to the 20th Century” in 1998, Mitrevski continues to develop.
“Viewers can feel how the director crosses over the borders with the shattering Rambo-like climax. His cynical, hallucinating, modern pilgrim progress is a journey, including sequences that are remembered and will for sure be seen as cult ones among adventurous cineastes”, says “Variety”.
The film analysis also focuses on each of the actors, presenting the bizarre story of “Bal-Can-Can”.
“Their Odyssey travels throughout the entire Balkan with progressive surrealistic and violent violence at each step. Corruption, arms trafficking, religious and ethnic hatred, rape, torture all come across that journey. Some people seem so involved in the killing that they forget why they are fighting”, reads “Variety”.
The conclusion reads, “Although Mitrevski does not possess the physical or budget resources of Kusturica, the achievements of his work generally respond to the challenges of the producers’ ambitions”. |
