Overcoming hatred in the Balkans
Honeymoons, Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic is the first co serboalbanesa in the history of cinema. And this data is anecdotal, because it shows the intention behind the film: to overcome the hatred created by nationalism in the region.
To this end, the story features two young couples who want to emigrate to Europe. For little things you know that some are of an Albanian village near the border with Serbia, and the others live in Belgrade. No prior construction of the characters, their psychology, but Goran Paskaljevic released into an area where hatred produced by the Balkan conflict still alive. And his personality is displayed when you act, when they try to relate to that hostile environment.
And the spectator is difficult to understand the violent situations that arise. The fund is hatred between two peoples but, because of their youth-these two pairs forget the past and not get involved in disputes that adults continue to maintain. So the director does not want to analyze the Balkans, the public has no way to do it, but wants to overcome this conflict through his characters. The nationalities are mixed to achieve this end.
The film relates the events and characters with small details, but are not lives that intersect or are affected. Are parallel and, thus, the narrative jumps from one to another. To join these networks, highlights the Paskaljevic is incorporating elements such as news you hear on the radio about a suicide bombing, or the zeal of one of the leading stores to protect their hands.
Honeymoons But not all is drama, there is also room for the grotesque, for the ironic humor that appears in some scenes. For example, in a wedding party held in a courtyard divided in half by a wire fence that separates the two brothers, each of a side in the war. The hatred that these two individuals are passed, and as shown, is typical, and makes you forget what is behind each individual, and only see the ridiculousness of their actions.
Honeymoons is a film committed to the people who hate each other in conflicts. It is an attempt to forget the war by young people. And with this work Pasjkaljevic Goran won last November the Golden Spike at Valladolid Seminci , and is enshrined as the most successful in this festival, after winning with The Other America (1995) and Optimists (2006) -.
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