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Time of the Gypsies
Why this pick
Kusturica expands Dolly Bell’s tender adolescent viewpoint into a boisterous, bittersweet Balkan fable, mixing music, marginal lives, family disorder and sudden emotional darkness.
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MOVIE1981 1h 47m YUG
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Why this pick
Its sunlit 1960s neighborhood, youthful awakenings and affectionate ensemble comedy echo Dolly Bell’s sense of a whole community shaping a teenager’s first romantic and adult discoveries.
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For the more exuberant side of Dolly Bell: a frantic, music-soaked Balkan comic world full of crooked schemes, romantic complications and vivid characters who overwhelm every quiet plan.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set over a single 1963 summer in one of Sarajevo's neighbourhoods, the plot follows the fortunes of a school boy nicknamed Dino (Slavko Štimac). Simultaneous to being enthralled with a life that flashes before his eyes and ears in the local cinema and youth centre (where, among other things, he watches Alessandro Blasetti's ''Europa di notte'' and listens to Adriano Celentano's "24 Mila Baci"), Dino gets a taste of the world inhabited by local thugs and petty criminals. However, when he is rewarded via a liaison for providing a hiding place for prostitute "Dolly Bell" (Ljiljana Blagojević), his world is turned upside down as he falls in love with her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ljiljana Blagojević
Dolly Bell
Mira Banjac
Majka