I saw the movie “dallas pashamende” tonight. The lovely Dorka played a very nice role in it. Try to see this nice Balkan-romeo-and-julliet film!!
The story of Robert-Adrian Pejo’s film is placed in the same space that inspired Kusturica in some of his most famous and best movies - the Balkan and Eastern Europe Roma communities. There is nothing magic or picturesque however in Pejo’s vision about the life of a community living literally and symbolically in garbage. The principal hero is a teacher having escaped this environment a while ago who returns for the funeral of his father for one day that threatens to turn in the rest of his life. He faces the reality he wanted to escape, he meets again his forgotten and abandoned love, he is attracted back to the life he left, and he tries to fix things. Here is the weak part of the film, the story line is all but too predictable, good - villain relations are so obvious, and the hero behaves too much like a Hollywood character on one side, while the tragedy that awaits him is also so expected. On the good side the camera work is really exquisite, creating the sensation of cruel reality in such a true manner that the viewer almost can say smell the smoke and dirt of the landscape. Acting is also very good, especially supporting and even smaller roles are all veridical and moving. Music score is what you expect and as good as you can expect and from a good movie in the genre.
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