Witnesses
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alma Prica, Leon Lucev Director: Vinko Bresan DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: Croatian (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 88 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-01-01 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Film Movement |
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Movie Reviews of Witnesses
Movie Review: Collateral damage . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in a town in Croatia, this melancholy film revisits the early 1990s during the Balkan conflict between Serbs and Croatians. With its nonlinear, sometimes dream-like structure it seems also to resurrect the war-torn psyche of those who lived through those times and became "witnesses" to its atrocities. Director Vinko Bresnan uses a super-wide screen and languid camera movements to follow his characters in and around a handful of buildings and streets as each is caught up in the aftermath of a shooting that takes the life of a man in the opening sequence of the film. Among them are a police detective and a newspaper reporter, who find their efforts frustrated by authorities as they attempt to discover the killers and save a witness from execution.
Filmed in muted colors under overcast skies, the story evokes the grim extremes of war-time anxiety, as soldiers return from the front either dead or maimed and those still fit to serve take up weapons to climb again into troop carriers, leaving behind those who wonder if they'll ever be seen alive again. Meanwhile, the plot unravels in fragments told out of sequence and repeated from different perspectives, so that a shroud of mystery keeps us guessing until the end how all its pieces fit together. The meaning, for instance, of a gunshot heard off-screen near the start of the film is not revealed until the final scene. Performances are compelling, and the musical score brooding. A well-made and moving film worth seeing.