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: 3.5★
The 5th of April 1941 was, by any measure, an ordinary Saturday in Belgrade. By the following morning, German, Italian and Hungarian forces had begun their invasion of Yugoslavia, and the country's brief, turbulent existence as a unified kingdom was effectively over. It is into that narrow sliver
Rating: 3.5★
There are films that feel like they arrive from a particular place and moment so completely that watching them is almost anthropological, and Time of the Gypsies is very much one of those films. Released in 1988 and co-produced across Yugoslavia, Italy, and the United Kingdom, it arrived at
Genre Comedy
★★★ — Underground (1995)
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