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Our review of The Happiest Man Alive: Sarajevo, My Hard Journey

2023-02-21T14:31:25.724Z


REVIEW - In this thrilling black comedy, a banal speed dating turns into an allegory of the war in Bosnia.


Like a sniper, a man observes from the top of a building the slender silhouette of a woman in a green skirt crossing a building site.

Tense to the point of pain, her hands tied behind her neck indicate her discomfort.

In the street, we continue to follow this dressed blonde from behind as she walks towards a concrete hotel, witness to a bygone era of Yugoslavia.

The camera films Sarajevo today.

Yet some walls still bear the scars of decades-old gunfire.

With

The Happiest Man in the World

, the Macedonian Teona Strugar Mitevska (

God exists, her name is Petrunya, or I am by Titov Veles

) signs a dramatic comedy that oscillates between farce, romance and tragedy.

Asja (Jelena Kordic Kuret) is on a speed date.

As for Zoran (Adnan Omerovic), the man who was watching her, he attends this session to meet Asja, whom he knows without her knowing.

Zoran's goal is not to find love, but to be absolved of trauma...

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Source: lefigaro

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