Dobra zena (2016)

	Also Known As: A good wife
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Mirjana Karanovic
	Actors: Mirjana Karanovic, Boris Isakovic
	Country: BIH, HR, SRB
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 02.10.2016, ArteKinoFestival, Streaming, Serbian with French subtitles
Synopsis: Milena (Karanovic) is a mother living a comfortable life in a rather rich neighbourhood of Belgrad. She takes care about her image, cooks for her husband Vlada (Isakovic), receives people properly, sings in a choir. Most of their friends are old war companions of Vlada. When Milena finds a video of her husband committing war crimes, she starts thinking more about all the small details and indices she sees around her.
Review: This co-production by all countries involved in the Balkan war of the 1990s is for me a good symbol. Where the good wife sees the horrors committed not only by her country and for which she does not care any more because the country has to go forward, but also committed by her husband. And to forgive one person is not the same as to forgive one country. The question of justice lived by the counsciousness of common people is for me the main originality of the movie. We go indeed deep in her feelings and her dilemma by seeing the permanent slight force asking to see her environment differently and to question it.  The acting of Karanovic is excellent in subtelty to show this internal questionning behing her naive face.
Rating: 7 /10