Synopsis: In Bosnia after the war, a woman lives with her daughter. Trying to make ends meet by working as a waitress, she also has to face up to her daughter's rebeliousness and growing inquisitiveness about her father.
Appraisal: I didn't find the drama in itself especially compelling, although it is sufficiently absorbing; also, it resolves itself in a simple, perhaps even simplistic, way, resorting to an exterior element (a gun) as a means of producing some climactic tension. I liked the individual sequences, as they show a sufficient mastery of space and of the actors. Despite its up-to-date narrative style and social context, this is basically a melodrama in the old tradition of Stella Dallas or Imitation of Life.
Rating: 51
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