Fresh
Pic's balance of emotional truth in the hands of a talented cast and charged by Medencevic's lensing and Kiril Dzajkovski's powerfully moody score, reps a bold step forward for Balkan cinema.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Overview
An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Director and cast
- Ivo Trajkov Director
- Sašo Kekenovski as Lem Nikodinoski
- Maja Stankovska as Isak Keyten
- Mitko Apostolovski as Ariton
- Verica Nedeska as Olivera Srezoska
- Risto Gogovski as The Bellman
- Nikolina Kujača as Ženata na Ariton
- Meto Jovanovski as Stariot Lem Nikodinovski / Narrator (voice)
- Aleksandar Ribak as Metodija Griškoski
- Vladimir Svetiev as Nastavnikot na geografija
- Petar Mirčevski Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is an impressionistic, sometimes fascinating, sometimes frustrating, window into a culture and country that was long walled off from the West.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
All of it, Chingo and Trajkov suggest, goes into shaping a Macedonian national identity uneasily poised between religious longing and ideological resolve.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
You leave this film intrigued by its aspiration and not likely to forget the world it's introduced you to.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Portentous melodrama.
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
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