An elegant hybrid of true-story exposé and slow-moving arthouse thriller, Serbian director Miroslav Terzić’s sober sophomore feature “Stitches” takes a familiar idea — a lone crusader taking on a corrupt system in pursuit of the truth — but delivers an unusually thoughtful, psychologically compelling character study. Taking its cue from Snežana Bogdanović’s eerily composed but fathomless central performance as a middle-aged Belgrade-based seamstress who believes she was deceived 18 years earlier by doctors who claimed her baby was stillborn, the film makes a confident drama of a cruel chapter in recent Serbian history.
Ana (Bogdanović), the wife of Jovan (Marko Baćović) and mother of teenage daughter Ivana (Jovana Stojiljković), is quiet to the point of being withdrawn. Or rather, we would think she’s withdrawn if it weren’t for an arresting, almost surreal opening scene that shows her stalking another woman, like a predator, from a safe distance. Though neither...
Ana (Bogdanović), the wife of Jovan (Marko Baćović) and mother of teenage daughter Ivana (Jovana Stojiljković), is quiet to the point of being withdrawn. Or rather, we would think she’s withdrawn if it weren’t for an arresting, almost surreal opening scene that shows her stalking another woman, like a predator, from a safe distance. Though neither...
- 2/22/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Jelena Stupljanin (pronounced Elena Stup-Yanin) is in a good humor. The award-winning Serbian-born actor, who has lived in New York City for the last six years and is a happy member of the Rising Phoenix Repertory since 2010, has a leading role in the award-winning film "Cirkus Columbia." Directed by Bosnian Oscar winner Danis Tanovic ("No Man's Land," 2001) and slated for release Feb. 17 and March 9 in N.Y. and L.A. respectively, the movie earned Stupljanin the best actress award from the Alexandria Film Festival. At the time of the interview, she was about to leave for the Berlin Film Festival to pick up the award, which she wasn't able to receive earlier "because of the Arab Spring revolution that was preventing us from being in Egypt," she recalls in excellent English, but with a marked accent. Set in 1991, following the fall of the Communist regime in Bosnia-Herzegovina,...
- 2/17/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Cirkus Columbia
Directed by Danis Tanovic
Written and Directed by Danis Tanovic and Ivica Djikic
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2010
The situation is a familiar one; a middle-aged man returns to his former hometown with a beautiful young girlfriend and shows off his good fortune to his old friends. When Divko Buntic (Miki Manojlovic) pulls up in a luxury car into the small Bosnian town, the onlookers’ response is the expected mix of jealousy and hatred. After making it big in Germany, he returns triumphantly to showcase his power in the newly capitalist Bosnia region. His next step is to kick his estranged wife and young adult son out of their house and move right inside. This premise appears to set up an obvious family drama, but the actual result provides an interesting shift on our expectations.
Set in 1991 just prior to the Yugoslav Wars, Cirkus Columbia offers an intimate look at the...
Directed by Danis Tanovic
Written and Directed by Danis Tanovic and Ivica Djikic
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2010
The situation is a familiar one; a middle-aged man returns to his former hometown with a beautiful young girlfriend and shows off his good fortune to his old friends. When Divko Buntic (Miki Manojlovic) pulls up in a luxury car into the small Bosnian town, the onlookers’ response is the expected mix of jealousy and hatred. After making it big in Germany, he returns triumphantly to showcase his power in the newly capitalist Bosnia region. His next step is to kick his estranged wife and young adult son out of their house and move right inside. This premise appears to set up an obvious family drama, but the actual result provides an interesting shift on our expectations.
Set in 1991 just prior to the Yugoslav Wars, Cirkus Columbia offers an intimate look at the...
- 11/15/2011
- by Dan Heaton
- SoundOnSight
The United Solo Festival, a two-week festival of one-person theatrical performances, concluded on Sunday night with an awards ceremony at Theatre Row in New York City, hosted by four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason."Our mission, to showcase the uniqueness of solo theater, has been accomplished," said Omar Sangare, the festival's founder and artistic director, in a written statement. "Having witnessed the popularity of these one-person shows, we feel encouraged to do it again with the second annual festival next year."The award recipients are:Best production: Bill Bowers, "It Goes Without Saying"Best one-man show: John Paul Karliak, "Donna/Madonna"Best one-woman show: Danusia Trevino, "Wonder Bread"Best solo actor: Brian Stanton, "Blank"Best solo actress: Jelena Stupljanin, "Revolting Women/Woman Bomb-Sade"Best directing: Austin Pendleton, "Clutter: I'm Saving My Life and It's Killing Me"Best script: Bob Brader, "Spitting in the Face of the Devil"Best use of set:...
- 11/22/2010
- backstage.com
Ok, here we are to continue our little chat about this year’s Venice Film Festival and some interesting titles that we’ll have a chance to see on its traditional home on the Venice Lido.
Mira Furlan and Miki Manojlovic in Cirkus Columbia
Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land, Triage) and his project Cirkus Columbia is definitely one of them, which is already being described as a “romantic saga” which “covers the end of a century that tragically announced the arrival of a new era in the Balkans”.
Here’s the Cirkus Columbia synopsis: “A small town in south Herzegovina, in the wake of the war. After years of communist rule, a new democratic government is elected, and this means that all the sinners of the ex-system are suddenly forgiven.
This is a sign for Divko Buntic to return home and start a series of little revenges after years of exile.
Mira Furlan and Miki Manojlovic in Cirkus Columbia
Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land, Triage) and his project Cirkus Columbia is definitely one of them, which is already being described as a “romantic saga” which “covers the end of a century that tragically announced the arrival of a new era in the Balkans”.
Here’s the Cirkus Columbia synopsis: “A small town in south Herzegovina, in the wake of the war. After years of communist rule, a new democratic government is elected, and this means that all the sinners of the ex-system are suddenly forgiven.
This is a sign for Divko Buntic to return home and start a series of little revenges after years of exile.
- 9/6/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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