Canterbury Film Society: Life is a Miracle
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When:
| Mon 30 Aug ’10, 6:30pm |
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Where: Rialto Cinema, Cnr Moorhouse Ave & Durham St, Christchurch City Show map
Restrictions: R15
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A brilliantly choreographed three-ring circus, complete with lovesick donkey and home-invading bear, Life Is a Miracle marks the overdue return to the screen of Serbian maestro Emir Kusturica (Time of the Gypsies, Black Cat, White Cat).
His boisterous, absurdist vision of the outbreak of war in 1992 swirls around Luka, a Serbian railway engineer living in the tiny Bosnian town of Golobuci, with his manic-depressive opera-singing wife and his soccer-star son Milos. War brings drastic changes, not least his wife’s elopement with a sleazy Hungarian musician and his own irresistible attraction to the blonde Muslim nurse who is supposed to be his hostage…
– Bill Gosden
In Serbo-Croatian, English, German and Hungarian, with English subtitles
154 mins, 35mm.
M sex scenes, offensive language, drug use
Please note tickets are not available to individual screenings but a three film pass is available for $25.
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