Before the Rain - Criterion Collection
by Milcho Manchevski
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Actor: Gr?goire Colin, Joe Gould, Peter Needham, Phyllida Law, Rade SerbedzijaDirector: Milcho Manchevski
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
Cinematographer: Manuel Teran
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Albanian (Original Language); English (Original Language); Macedonian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Before the Rain - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Confusing but moving...
Summary: 4 Stars
Macedonian film with English subtitles consists of three stories focusing on tragic love affairs.
The first story set in the beautiful Macedonian mountains is about a young monk who takes on a vow of silence and defends/hides a young Albanian woman who is accused of murder. He is forced to leave the monastery and their relationship comes to a brutal end.
The second story is set in London. A beautiful woman is torn between the love for her husband and leaving him for a famous war photographer and Macedonian by the name of Aleksandar. Her relationship with her husband comes to a violent end.
The final story pulls the prior two stories together. Aleksandar, the war photographer, is sickened about his role in the death of a civilian in his effort to get the "big news picture." He leaves his job in London as a war photographer and returns home to Macedonia. He learns that his home village is torn apart between civil strife between the Macedonians and the Albanians. Hana, his Albanian girlfriend, is banned from seeing him again. Aleksandar, the former photographer who from a distance captured civil war in pictures - now tries to do his part in ending the senseless violence and hatred - instead he finds that he ultimately becomes a casualty (and is in the picture instead of taking the picture).
Recap:
1) Film is divided into 3 stories (with the third pulling the first two together) and they are told backwards which is confusing.
2) Despite the confusion, the images (facial, countryside, city, mountains, skyline), the emotions, the characters, the relationships (civil war where neighbors and friends turn on each other) are all deeply moving. This film will stay with me for some time.
3) Excellent music/soundtrack by the Anastasia band.
Summary of Before the Rain - Criterion Collection
The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Gregoire Colin) a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge) and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Serbedzija) to paint a portrait of simmering entrenched ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties this gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence and remains one of recent cinema's most poetic evocations of the futility of war.System Requirements:Running Time: 113 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/COMING OF AGE Rating: NR UPC: 715515029421 Manufacturer No: CC1749DDVDArt House & International DVD Video
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