On the Milky Road review – booze, bears and illicit affairs in wartime Bosnia
Two-time Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars as a milkman who falls for Monica Bellucci’s beautiful fugitive, with typically delirious results
Emir Kusturica is the Sarajevo-bor director renowned for being a member of the exclusive Cannes double-Palme club. Like Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers, he has won the Palme d’Or twice, for When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995) – the movies that first stunned audiences with his signature high-energy style, staggeringly ambitious crowd scenes and sustained black-comic action sequences. They were a Fellini-esque profusion of music, crowds, animals and anarchic humour. He is also renowned for making comments (and indeed films) sympathetic to the Serbian side in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, although his movie Life Is a Miracle offered an emollient love story between a Bosnian Muslim and a Serb.
His new movie, On the Milky Road, is a flawed, indulgent...
Emir Kusturica is the Sarajevo-bor director renowned for being a member of the exclusive Cannes double-Palme club. Like Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers, he has won the Palme d’Or twice, for When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995) – the movies that first stunned audiences with his signature high-energy style, staggeringly ambitious crowd scenes and sustained black-comic action sequences. They were a Fellini-esque profusion of music, crowds, animals and anarchic humour. He is also renowned for making comments (and indeed films) sympathetic to the Serbian side in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, although his movie Life Is a Miracle offered an emollient love story between a Bosnian Muslim and a Serb.
His new movie, On the Milky Road, is a flawed, indulgent...
- 10/14/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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