Krivina
Written by Igor Drljača
Directed by Igor Drljača
Canada/Bosnia/Herzegovina, 2012
For many, to be in any major city can be at once unusual, intimidating, awesome and inspirational in its pace, arrangement and overall mentality. Walking streets is a humbling experience as you learn your given metropolis’ endlessly stacked ins, outs, corners and nuances – either arms-length hovels or comfort zones you simply haven’t yet had the pleasure of comforting yourself in.
Toronto is a perfect place to see gracious young Sarajevo-born, Canada-raised director Igor Drljača’s debut feature which succeeds a recent history of shorts at Tiff. Though the increasingly popular festival seems to draw its majority of attendees locally, a considerable number of us are strangers in the quintessentially Canadian hub. For the greater part of its length Krivina (roughly translated to “the curve” or “the bend”, but holding far greater weight in its original Serbo-Croatian) takes...
Written by Igor Drljača
Directed by Igor Drljača
Canada/Bosnia/Herzegovina, 2012
For many, to be in any major city can be at once unusual, intimidating, awesome and inspirational in its pace, arrangement and overall mentality. Walking streets is a humbling experience as you learn your given metropolis’ endlessly stacked ins, outs, corners and nuances – either arms-length hovels or comfort zones you simply haven’t yet had the pleasure of comforting yourself in.
Toronto is a perfect place to see gracious young Sarajevo-born, Canada-raised director Igor Drljača’s debut feature which succeeds a recent history of shorts at Tiff. Though the increasingly popular festival seems to draw its majority of attendees locally, a considerable number of us are strangers in the quintessentially Canadian hub. For the greater part of its length Krivina (roughly translated to “the curve” or “the bend”, but holding far greater weight in its original Serbo-Croatian) takes...
- 9/13/2012
- by Tom Stoup
- SoundOnSight
Ghosts Of Bosnian Past: Drljaca’s Tenuous Homecoming
First time full length helmer Igor Drljaca returns to the sparse aesthetics found in his previous shorts On A Lonely Drive and Woman in Purple with his hypnotic feature debut, Krivina, a journey of perceptual exploration and regional penance that borders on drowsy. His story revolves around a Bosnian expatriate returning home to his mother country, searching for former acquaintances that bear their own tales of woe, made up or not.
We follow Miro (Goran Slavkovic), a man who’s vague life story keeps him on the move, never staying in one place for long. He has made Toronto his current place of residence, but after hearing that his long lost friend Dado has been missing well over a decade, he decides to make his way back to Bosnia to try to track him down. Dado has a dark and murky past himself.
First time full length helmer Igor Drljaca returns to the sparse aesthetics found in his previous shorts On A Lonely Drive and Woman in Purple with his hypnotic feature debut, Krivina, a journey of perceptual exploration and regional penance that borders on drowsy. His story revolves around a Bosnian expatriate returning home to his mother country, searching for former acquaintances that bear their own tales of woe, made up or not.
We follow Miro (Goran Slavkovic), a man who’s vague life story keeps him on the move, never staying in one place for long. He has made Toronto his current place of residence, but after hearing that his long lost friend Dado has been missing well over a decade, he decides to make his way back to Bosnia to try to track him down. Dado has a dark and murky past himself.
- 9/10/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Krivina
Directed by Igor Drljaca
Written by Igor Drljaca
Canada/ Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012
Krivina isn’t A Serbian Film. It’s Bosnian. There’s a difference.
One is sordid and luridly over-the-top for the purpose of ‘commenting’ about the depravity and moral decline of post-Milošević Serbia. The other is a fractured and fragmented personal journey that aims to shed light on the dilapidating state of post-war Bosnia.
Although wildly different in approach, both films suffer from a servile adherence to its technique, to make the viewer feel exactly what they’re trying to convey. As a result, Krivina, like A Serbian Film, is a picture that focuses too much on what it’s saying and not enough on how well it says it.
The story follows Miro (Goran Slavkovic), an expatriate from the former Yugoslavia now living in Canada. Uprooted from family and friends, and with no tangible connections to speak of,...
Directed by Igor Drljaca
Written by Igor Drljaca
Canada/ Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012
Krivina isn’t A Serbian Film. It’s Bosnian. There’s a difference.
One is sordid and luridly over-the-top for the purpose of ‘commenting’ about the depravity and moral decline of post-Milošević Serbia. The other is a fractured and fragmented personal journey that aims to shed light on the dilapidating state of post-war Bosnia.
Although wildly different in approach, both films suffer from a servile adherence to its technique, to make the viewer feel exactly what they’re trying to convey. As a result, Krivina, like A Serbian Film, is a picture that focuses too much on what it’s saying and not enough on how well it says it.
The story follows Miro (Goran Slavkovic), an expatriate from the former Yugoslavia now living in Canada. Uprooted from family and friends, and with no tangible connections to speak of,...
- 9/7/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Krivina
Directed by Igor Drljaca
Canada / Bosnia / Herzegovina, 2012
Krivina is a film about the past that, refreshingly, does not take you there. I mean that phrase in the literal sense; the Bosnian War touches everything in this film, but the film never takes us back there. It offers no extended flashbacks to the war, no big reveals, and no straightforward explanations. Miro (Goran Slavkovic, Zone of Separation), an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who lives in Toronto, can only attempt to make sense of the war with the tools of the present. The present seems inadequate to explain, and overwhelmed by, the past, but such is history in Krivina. It can be a bit like staring into a dark pool. An uncomfortably placid surface belies startling and terrifying depth.
Reporter Robert D. Kaplan titled his travelogue Balkan Ghosts, and whilst the book itself is not terribly insightful, the title certainly is.
Directed by Igor Drljaca
Canada / Bosnia / Herzegovina, 2012
Krivina is a film about the past that, refreshingly, does not take you there. I mean that phrase in the literal sense; the Bosnian War touches everything in this film, but the film never takes us back there. It offers no extended flashbacks to the war, no big reveals, and no straightforward explanations. Miro (Goran Slavkovic, Zone of Separation), an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who lives in Toronto, can only attempt to make sense of the war with the tools of the present. The present seems inadequate to explain, and overwhelmed by, the past, but such is history in Krivina. It can be a bit like staring into a dark pool. An uncomfortably placid surface belies startling and terrifying depth.
Reporter Robert D. Kaplan titled his travelogue Balkan Ghosts, and whilst the book itself is not terribly insightful, the title certainly is.
- 9/1/2012
- by Dave Robson
- SoundOnSight
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