Kusturica’s overwhelming satire of Yugoslavia’s tortured history receives an excellent high-def release.
An intimate epic, a tangible hallucination, a visceral symphony, and a beautiful display of brutality.
The weather has gotten better in Karlovy Vary. Sort of.
If you’ve ever wondered what led to the collapse of the Soviet empire, Farewell offers an intriguing answer.
Cold War spy games are seen through the prism of family stress in Christian Carion’s Farewell.
Someday this fascinating curio by a major European filmmaker will get its full due.
Emir Kusturica’s film is a randy peepshow, a thorny docu-tangle of real-life horror and magical realist wish fulfillments.
Jordan’s remarkable scripted dialogue is trumped only by the sadness of Nick Nolte’s performance.
Neil Jordan seems determined to keep the picture’s momentum as rigorous as possible.