Sunday, June 30, 2013

Rendezvous in Belgrad (2013)

Also Known As: Prakticni vodic kroz Beograd sa pevanjem i plakanjem
Year of first release: 2013
Director: Bojan Vuletic
Actors: Julie Gayet, Marko Janketic, Anita Mancic, Jean-Marc Barr, Nada Sargin, Baki Davrak, Hristina Popovic, Leon Lucev
Country: -
Genre: Comedy
Conditions of visioning: 23.06.2013, City46
Synopsis: Four couples with mixed nationalities meet in Belgrad and live the usual stories of within love stories. Five choirs make the intro, conlusion and transitions between four episodes.
Review: The four stories are quite basic, but the environment where these play are well thought and they cover a large society without being caricatural. Many kicks on the people of Belgrad and even more on the visitors: artist, worker and commercial. But all kicks done with love. After two decades of war and political desasters, Belgrad shows a different face where everything is possible. The choirs are also greatly selected, the songs and the singers! All the time matching greatly the previous and the next stories and their environments. The last story is for me the best one and could even have become a movie itself. A Croatian guy marrying a Serbian women having to cross the border for the wedding. Extremely funny and maybe also the only one with a very good acting. The rest of the acting being from acceptable to very bad.
Compared to Parada, other recent Serbian movie, this one does not show at all the violence, the racism that seemed to be remaining in the whole country in Parada. This way it makes a good ads for Belgrad, even if nobody believes this completely. 70% of the tourists felt safe. Well it makes 30% of the tourists that felt unsafe! Neverthless, it makes it interesting.
The movie had been finished in 2011 but has been released in April this year only.
Rating: 6 /10

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