ThiefHott Too much of everything

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Smoreni Zmaj This is the first feature film shot entirely in the Romany language, and I was forced to watch the domestic film with English subtitles, because I did not understand almost anything without it. Except for cursing, of course. The film received five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and Kusturica won the Best Director award. Totally deserved, because this surreal drama is probably his life's achievement. The somewhat fairy-tale atmosphere of this movie totally hypnotized me and over two hours flew by in a moment. A special acknowledgment should be given to the cast, as its major part consists of amateurs with only a few professional actors. In particular, I have to single out the scene of St. George celebration on the river, which is one of the most impressive movie scenes I've ever seen in my life, and which would probably have provided Academy Award to this film, if it was an American movie.10/10

oscarjrdominguez This movie is worth seeing every minute of it. It is truly a whole new movie experience. Filled with suspense, tragedy, love, drama and revenge, it was a non-stop excitement watching it. Its awkward scenes and shocking events adds to the movies uniqueness. It does an incredible job of giving an insight to the gypsy life. The viewer is allowed to see behind the negative and stereotypical gypsy image and see the true purpose and foundation of the gypsies. Giving the sense that gypsies are human too and go through the same survival struggles as anyone else does, the movie gives a new meaning to the life and description of a gypsy. Magic realism is used in this movie that really takes the viewer to another entertainment experience. The acting is extraordinary and the complex story structure is phenomenal.

zumpano_elisa_c This is a very unique film set in Saravejo and in Italy and it is not one easy to follow. It is full of magic realism as some of the characters have telekinetic powers. One of them is the naive Perhan, the protagonist of the movie. As the title suggests the story is told from gypsies eyes where using magic realism suits it perfectly knowing that this way to tell a tale is associated with a way to escape the hard reality, like on third world countries and among minorities. There is a lot of drinking and partying in the movie which is used as a tool to escape this reality. It shifts a lot in mood as it starts as a comedy and end in tragedy. When I wrote in the beginning that it is not easy to follow this movie is because the dreams and reality are all blended making it difficult to distinguish what is what. And it also makes a lot of suggestions with ambiguous interpretations like "who is the father of Azra's baby?"The story starts to go out of the track when the character seen as the grounded person in the movie, the grandmother, is the one who sends Perhan and Danira to Italy with Ahmed. There, the good guy Perhan is seduced buy money which corrupts him and disappoints the ones he cares about, especially his grandmother. The language spoken on the film, Romany, is a very peculiar from the gypsies.it is really hard to put in words how I was feeling after watching this masterpiece, I only know that I was feeling great to have seen it.

Heaven C Time of the Gypsies, is a film of art the director Emir Kusturica incorporates many details into the film that makes it captivating. The structure of the film is very interesting it begins as a comedy and transitions into being a tragedy. Kusturica tells a story about a boy name Perhan who is the protagonist character that has telekinetic powers, he was raised by his grandmother and has a little sister; the audience follows his journey of his life experiences and choices . Magical realism is demonstrated through out the film, for example, when Perhan and his little sister are in the backseat of the car they look through the back window and immediately Perhan and his sister spot a wedding veil flowing through the air it seem as if the veil was traveling with them. Another example is after Ezra delivers their baby she dies but then begins to levitate in the air and it was symbolic because her levitation was giving the message to Perhan that he is the father of their child not Ahmed. In addition, it also seems as her levitation was showing that the baby possibly has magical powers as well. Something that is very interesting is the way the film ends, Perhan goes to Ahmed's wedding to seek revenge, which is him using his telekinetic powers to kill Ahmed.However, since he does kill Ahmed, it leads to Ahmed's wife deciding to murder Perhan which results in Perhan death. In contrast, in the beginning of the film it starts off with a wedding scene but the scene is more comedic; therefore, it was very interesting how Kusturica structures both scenes into being very dynamic.