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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Kusturica’s earlier Balkan carnival shares the same exuberant village chaos, unruly music, romantic absurdity, and affectionate belief that love can outdance every practical disaster.
02
Why this pick
A more sweeping, darker companion to Life Is a Miracle: history crashes into private lives amid boisterous spectacle, surreal humour, and Kusturica’s vividly musical sense of collective madness.
03
Why this pick
This Bosnian war satire similarly finds bitterly funny human absurdity inside conflict, balancing escalating tension with compassion for people trapped by forces far beyond them.
04
Why this pick
Its ragtag, combative characters and Balkan road-trip energy echo the film’s lively mixture of social fracture, rough comedy, unexpected solidarity, and open-hearted romanticism.
05
Why this pick
For the same director’s dreamier side, this is another freewheeling, music-soaked fable where eccentric families, impossible longings, and reality itself keep slipping into comic fantasy.
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01 / THE STORY
The film opens just as construction has been completed on a railway connecting a mountainous regions of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and western Serbia in 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer, has moved to Bosnia from Belgrade with his mentally unstable wife, Jadranka, and his football-playing son, Miloš, to run a railway station and act as caretaker. Luka is at work preparing the opening of the railway while Miloš attempts to become a professional footballer with the Partizan team. Utterly engrossed in his work and blinded by natural optimism, Luka remains deaf to the increasingly persistent rumblings of war, which has broken out in Croatia and threatens to spread.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Veljo
Filipović
Miloš Đurić
Nada
