Two-time Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars as a milkman who falls for Monica Bellucci’s splendid fugitive,with typically delirious resultsEmir Kusturica is the Sarajevo-bor director renowned for being a member of the exclusive Cannes double-Palme club. Like Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers, he has won the Palme d’Or twice, or for When Father Was Away on trade (1985) and Underground (1995) – the movies that first stunned audiences with his signature high-energy style,staggeringly ambitious crowd scenes and sustained black-comedian action sequences. They were a Fellini-esque profusion of music, crowds, and animals and anarchic humour. He is also renowned for making comments (and indeed films) sympathetic to the Serbian side in the Bosnian war of the 1990s,although his film Life Is a Miracle offered an emollient love legend between a Bosnian Muslim and a Serb.
His new film, On the Milky Road, and is a flawed,indulgent but impressive picture along very familiar lines – another wildly boozy knees-up with splashes of magic realism and tragedy, here garnished with CGI. It is possible to be bit blase about the bravura performance Kusturica conjures: it’s still a distinctive achievement, and the director’s visual sense is tremendous. Related: Emir Kusturica: Cannes rejected my film because I support Putin Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com