Underground (1995)

Emir Kusturica directs Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski and Mirjana Jokovic in this award winning Serbian film about resistance fighters who stay hiding underground long after the war is over.

Absurdist and untethered. Often the chaos is a mask for some quite shallow political points. I’m not a fan of easy point scoring or wackiness used to cover up a lack of formalism. There are stretches that are genuinely exciting but you could equally spend half the three hour runtime scrolling away on your phone and miss very little.

6

Perfect Double Bill: This is enough as it is.

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