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One
fine summer's morning, a Bosnian relief patrol wakes up to find itself between
the frontlines. Only one man, Ciki (Djuric), survives the subsequent turkey shoot,
hiding in a trench in no man's land, where he is soon daggers drawn with Nino
(Bitorajac), a na茂ve Serb recruit sent to find him.
There is also the
small matter of Ciki's supposedly dead colleague Cera (Sovagovic), who regains
consciousness having been laid on a booby-trapped landmine. Very reluctantly,
the two enemies work together to resolve Cera's situation.
Much of the action
takes place within the trench, as Tanovic contrasts the grim situation with a
pastoral idyll of sunny skies and chirruping grasshoppers.
But he does expand
focus through a French UN soldier (Siatidis), hampered by orders not to get involved,
and Katrin Cartlidge's nosy TV news reporter.
Some nice humour
comes at the expense of the UNPROFOR peacekeepers, with the blue-helmeted troops
(known locally as Smurfs) failing to find anyone who can speak French, while the
senior officers are more interested in covering their backs than conflict resolution.
Crucially, although
Ciki is the one we identify with initially, he is soon seen as just as warped
by events as Nino, their arguments about who started the war being won mainly
by who has the rifle at the time.
Even the discovery
that they once knew the same girl offers only a brief respite from mutual hatred,
and Tanovic displays a clear-eyed, if depressing, lack of sentimentality throughout.
In Serbo-Croat
with English subtitles.
"No Man's
Land" opens in UK cinemas on Friday 17th May 2002.
Reviewed by , 成人快手 Films
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