SEVEN AND A HALF [SEDAM I PO]

FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER AT 5PM

Country Serbia Running Time 110 mins Format  35 mm Director/ Screenplay Miroslav Momcilovic  Producers Miroslav Momcilovic, Branislav Trifunovic DOP  Dimitrije Jokovic  Cast Milan Gutovic, Milos Samolov, Milos Timotijevic, Marija Karan   Print Source Brigada Films Email brigada@gmail.com   
Website http://www.sedamipo.com/indexe.html

The Deadly Sins have been the subject of cinema before, in thrillers (Se7en David Fincher, 1995) and comedy (The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins Graham Stark, 1971), here Miroslav Momcilovic’s treatment of the subject combines drama and comedy in a superb summation of society in modern Serbia.
The film presents seven stories, each representing a deadly sin, which seem to take place in the same neighbourhood of Belgrade. Main characters from one film will make a small appearance in another, and so the whole gives the sense of a living, breathing place. The stories eventually combine in a final scene of great emotion, full of pain, yet hope for the future.
In his tales Momcilovic remains resolutely non-judgemental, perhaps most controversially in the Lust segment. In Envy two bar-flies hurl casual ethnic insults at the owner of the bar, but underneath it all Momcilovic seems to see a society where everyone has the ability to come together, and his Anger seems to show the futility of pent-up rage for past wrongs. In ‘Pride’ we can see how western culture has fully permeated the Balkans as a young couple fall out on the Serbian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
No story is purely comic, and yet even the darkest situations have a flare of humour. 
Look out for Sloth, Envy and, Lust.            RO

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