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CERN CineClub - Life is a Miracle
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503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)
Description
Directed by Emir Kusturica (Serbia, 2004)
Original version serbian; english subtitles; 155 minutes
Kusturica's second fim about the war in former Yugoslavia, is situated in a small town on the (then administrative) border between Bosnia and Serbia, in the wake of the Bosnian war. In the opening sequences, Kusturica maps life in the last and perhaps most grotesque phase of Yugoslav state socialism. The grandiose plans and bizarre celebrations of revolutionary achievements, industrial development, and workers' self-management are contrasted with endemic corruption and national homogenisation, heralding the imminent collapse of the system. Life is a Miracle conveys a moving anti-war message. Reshuffling the old poetic motifs in his work, and expanding his focus on the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, Kusturica delivers a potent and inspiring love story about people who, in a time of crisis, maintain their proximity to the world of Nature.
Original version serbian; english subtitles; 155 minutes
Kusturica's second fim about the war in former Yugoslavia, is situated in a small town on the (then administrative) border between Bosnia and Serbia, in the wake of the Bosnian war. In the opening sequences, Kusturica maps life in the last and perhaps most grotesque phase of Yugoslav state socialism. The grandiose plans and bizarre celebrations of revolutionary achievements, industrial development, and workers' self-management are contrasted with endemic corruption and national homogenisation, heralding the imminent collapse of the system. Life is a Miracle conveys a moving anti-war message. Reshuffling the old poetic motifs in his work, and expanding his focus on the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, Kusturica delivers a potent and inspiring love story about people who, in a time of crisis, maintain their proximity to the world of Nature.
