How many times did you see a movie made in a scenery of a land, torn apart by a war, in a city where not even one building has traces of that war. "Kod amidze Idriza" (for English speaking people: "Days and Hours" is such a movie.
The movie starts with Fuke, a guy who visits his uncle Idriz and Aunt Sabira, to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car doesn't want to start Fuke has to stay in their house to stay over. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbours.
It's so good to see a movie that really shows the effects of a war without even mentioning the war. The neighbours are a weird bunch of people, there a woman who seems to have borrowed a whole lot of plates from Sabira, there's the son of that woman who is boxing against a boxing ball and running around all the time. Real people who could live anywhere besides this little village in the hills near Serajevo. It's not a movie about heroes but a movie about sad people who want to live a normal life, said the giant director Pjer Zalica when I spoke with him at the Northern Dutch Movie festival. A real treat when you wanna see something else than a Hollywood movie !!!
The movie starts with Fuke, a guy who visits his uncle Idriz and Aunt Sabira, to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car doesn't want to start Fuke has to stay in their house to stay over. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbours.
It's so good to see a movie that really shows the effects of a war without even mentioning the war. The neighbours are a weird bunch of people, there a woman who seems to have borrowed a whole lot of plates from Sabira, there's the son of that woman who is boxing against a boxing ball and running around all the time. Real people who could live anywhere besides this little village in the hills near Serajevo. It's not a movie about heroes but a movie about sad people who want to live a normal life, said the giant director Pjer Zalica when I spoke with him at the Northern Dutch Movie festival. A real treat when you wanna see something else than a Hollywood movie !!!