ON THE MILKY ROAD

NA MLEČNOM PUTU

EUROPICTURES SRL - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD

Drama - Completed 2016

Set during the Bosnian War and telling the fairy-tale-ish love story between a Serbian milkman (played by the director) and his Italian-Serbian object of desire (Monica Bellucci), “Milky” reinforces Kusturica’s leap from magical realism into the territory of exaggerated phoniness.

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mostra del cinema di venezia 2016
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SERBIA, MEXICO, UNITED KINGDOM, USA
    • Languages
    • SERBIAN
    • Duration
    • 125 mn
    • Synopsis
    • Animals figure heavily here, reinforcing the animalistic nature of humans – especially in a Kusturica film. So when pig slaughterers dump buckets of blood into a bathtub, no one should be surprised that a flock of geese take a literal blood bath. Like many images here, it’s startling, though it’s hard to tell if it’s really meant as a commentary on the bloodbath that was the Bosnian War, since all the shooting back and forth on screen is far less visceral than what goes on in that tub.