When Father Was Away on Business

Buy This Item When Father Was Away on Business by Fox Lorber  Available from Amazon  $19.98  on 11-27-2008     A delightfully warm comedy, seen through the eyes of a six year old boy who thinks his father is away on business, when in actuality he's been sent to the mines for having an affair. Reader Reviews This movie is a real magic portrait about a boy's coming of age in' 50s Yugoslavia. Malik is the main starring of this brilliant exercise of existential raving about a man who lives according his own rules, he philanders with a voluptuous woman who at the same time is a lover of a sinister Government' s functionary who finds the perfect pretext to send him to a labor camp because his unrepentant irreverence respect a smart and acidic cartoon; that's why Milik's father argues he will be away on business. The first masterwork of Emir Kusturica is filled of visible provincialism (which reminds us to the first stage of Federico Fellini) where the humour, customs and livings of the simple people is mirrored with inimitable good taste and sensibility. Malik is also a sleepwalker (which works out a sharp metaphor of closing the eyes to ignore the surrounding reality). Kusturica in Yugoslavia represented what Wajda (Ashes and diamonds) in Poland, Angelopoulos in Greece, Tarkovsky in U.R.S.S. or Berlanga in Spain: to express crude realities inthese Totalitarian regimes, although Kusturica bet for the light comedy, and it's not a mere casualty the imminent collapse of the iron curtain has been so near. For Kusturica fans, this work is a real cult movie and for lovers of cinema Kustuirica (Times of Gypsies and Underground) the first of future projects that have become him in one of the most important filmmakers of the world. Absolutely recommended that received the Cannes Award as Bes picture, 1985.

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