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Nestali (2020)
Twice as good as General
I disagree with the other reviewers, this is not the best that was ever made on the balkans
and "croatian film industry" DOES live in a bubble, its a state funded money burning mess
therefore even we croatians mostly ignore it and stick to foreign productions.
For 3 episodes we watch 6 soldiers wander around a wasteland behind the enemies line,
everytime the villan with a few of his thugs appears in the far distance, killing friendlies,
the sniper NEVER takes a shot. In between we get some lenghty random dream-sequence.
In the final episode they end up dressed in enemies camo on a big party, ALL enemy forces present.
In the evening they secretly start killing off some soldiers in close-combat using knifes or barehanded
unnoticed by the other celebrating soldiers, the villain itself gets his skull crushed in with a rock.
Than the 6 with some random girl drive of to escape the wrath of the enemy who in the meantime
noticed the murdered soldiers. A shootout occurs followed by a car chase that in one moment started
of by night and in the next scene continues by daylight with some more fire exchange between the vehicles.
Now one of our 6 guys gets hit by a bullet, the enemies suddenly retreat and the group drives of "home".
In the radio we hear that the croatian forces successfully engaged its biggest counter-offensive (operation storm),
bare in mind, the celebrating opposing forces (with the lacking security) knew about this offensive !!!
THATS THE PLOT.
Vis-à-vis (2013)
till today ...
... still the directors best work so far !!!
one of the few examples in croatian filmmaking that a good script
is far more important than all the production value money can buy.
also great authentic acting!!!
Dnevnik Diane Budisavljevic (2019)
mixed feelings
1/3 movie, 1/3 historical footage and 1/3 interviews,
the movie part is boring,
the historical footage interesting,
the interviews are just sad because these
now old people grew up without their parents.
Now here is why i have mixed feelings, the interesting part is not
the story that the director tries to tell about her relative back than
but rather the childhood-memories of those foster-kids, now old people.
The movie ends telling the viewer that the record cards from back than
where confiscated and never found. After the movie was in theaters another
historical researcher went to the croatian state archive and found them immediately.
Now i cant even tell if those old people and their sad childhood story have
just been taken advantage of for this movie project or not.
My rating of 3 stars therefore is only for the interviews of these old people and theire
sad childhood-story since i cant rely on the credibility of the research done for the
rest of the movie. :-(