Life is a Miracle

Sorry, this event’s been and gone

When:

Mon 16 Aug ’10, 6:15pm–8:45pm

Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: R15

Ticket Information:

Members only. 12-month memberships available at the door:: $90.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.filmsociety.wel ... 543&sy=2010

Favourites:

Wellington Film Society

Emir Kusturica, Serbia-Montenegro/France 2004

There is enough inventiveness in Emir Kusturica’s new film to keep another director in plots for a decade… Life Is a Miracle is a comic celebration of Balkan joie de vivre and the beauty of the Bosnian countryside (80 per cent of the film is shot outdoors, through the changing seasons); a story of one man’s obsessive dream and the havoc that it wreaks on those around him; a forceful and ironic polemic against conventional readings of the politics of the break-up of Yugoslavia; and a tragic tale of impossible love which makes explicit allusion to Shakespeare… Luka and Milos have a recurrent conversation, ostensibly about football, on the relative importance of speed and feeling, concluding that what is needed is a mix of the two. Life Is a Miracle has both in abundance.
- Julian Graffy, Sight and Sound