This weekend # 9: Grbavica

Sara

“Grbavica”, the winner of this year’s Berlin film festival, is one of those films that risk being put in a potential cinemagoer’s mental category for “important” films that he “should” see, then ends up avoiding, fearing that the point of the film is more giving a political statement than presenting an independent work of art. In this case, staying away would be a sad mistake, because “Grbavica” is first and foremost a story that grows on you and captivates from the first to the last shot. A film that radiates the humanism and hope of the Sarajevo artists of survival, as Die Zeit recently titled its portrait of the city (“Grbavica” is now showing at Norwegian cinemas.)