Yugoslav cinema punched well above its weight during the 1960s and 70s, when the Novi Film movement produced irreverent, politically sharp work that sat awkwardly with the authorities. Emir Kusturica later carried that anarchic energy onto the world stage, and his sprawling Underground is a good place to start. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There is something genuinely endearing about a film that wears its influences so openly. Armour of God is, quite plainly, Jackie Chan's answer to Indiana Jones: the hero is a globe-trotting treasure hunter nicknamed the Asian Hawk, and the whole thing cheerfully lifts the "ancient relics
Rating: 3.5★
Sometimes a film catches you completely off guard, and that's the best possible feeling. I'll be honest: a 1980s rural Slavic road trip movie wasn't exactly on my radar as essential weekend viewing. But Slobodan Šijan's Who's Singin' Over
Rating: 3.5★
Being half Romani, I came to Time of the Gypsies carrying a particular kind of curiosity. I knew the Romani experience depicted here, in what was then Yugoslavia, would be worlds away from anything I grew up with in the UK. What I didn't quite expect was how
Genre Comedy
★★★ — Underground (1995)
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