Bea Swanson
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
lastliberal
I gave up some sleep time last night to catch an old film that looked really interesting - Harrison's Flowers with Andie Macdowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck.). It was a very romantic, if incredibly unrealistic, film about a woman who travels to Bosnia in the middle of the war to find her husband, whom she refuses to believe is dead. It was the graphic and tense depiction of the war and the ethnic cleansing that went on during that war that was so captivating. I have not seen such realistic war footage since Saving Private Ryan. Fortunately, they left out the blood and gore, but they could not leave out the terrible toll that this war and all wars take.
ivica simonovic
At firs i must say this: I did not see the movie.I read some comments about movie and i will explain now why i wrote without seeing the movie.I will watch it later for sure bur comment first. I vote with 5 because there are some elements which are very wrong.Sorry for my English.I am from Belgrade and i think that there were many wrong things in that war but not all of them are done by Serbs.There is other side if the war.They done things too.I think that the Croats are more nationalist now,especially then,then the Serbs.I am tired of watching this kind of movies.1 sided an pretty untrue.Sorry thats my opinion.Also i think that it is very stupid to go as a reporter in military uniform,especially at the time and place where is a lot of snipers.
begi2606
Reading the other comments I have come to an understanding that very few people know the truth about the war in Croatia. Especially idiots from north and west Europe.One of rare movies about horrors in Vukovar and Croatia.Reading the other comments I have come to an understanding that very few people know the truth about the war in Croatia. Especially idiots from north and west Europe.One of rare movies about horrors in Vukovar and Croatia.Reading the other comments I have come to an understanding that very few people know the truth about the war in Croatia. Especially idiots from north and west Europe.One of rare movies about horrors in Vukovar and Croatia.Igor, Croatia
robertconnor
When her photo-journalist husband is reported killed during the Croatian-Serbian war, an American woman refuses to believe his death and sets out to find him. Ill-prepared, she very quickly encounters the depravity and horrific violence of the events of Yugoslavia 1991-92.Harrison's Flowers plays like an uncomfortable hybrid between a gritty European film, and a rather crass US TV movie. Whilst the scenes of war, and the experiences of journalists on the front line are captured to astonishing, and frequently devastating effect, the very notion of MacDowell wandering through the carnage looking for her husband approaches the ridiculous. MacDowell isn't necessarily a bad actor, and has often been shown to good effect in a number of funny and successful comedies. However, she just doesn't have the chops to carry such a brutal and shocking story, and as such is the film's central flaw. This viewer can't help wondering what kind of movie it would have been had, say, Cate Blanchett played Sarah. Other performances are excellent, and deeply credible, and asides from a frankly unbelievable ending, this film sears its way into the memory and reminds how shocking this period of history was.
