Dom za vesanje

Emir Kusturica's Dom za vesanje (1988) follows Perhan, a young Romani boy in a poverty-stricken Yugoslav village, played with open-faced hunger by Davor Dujmovic. Perhan wants a better life, and the only route on offer runs through crime and, in Kusturica's hands, through magic as well. On paper this is a comedy. It behaves like one only in stretches; it is also a crime story and a drama, and Kusturica lets a joke curdle into grief before a scene is done. Bora Todorovic, Husnija Hasimovic, and Ljubica Adzovic fill out a village thick with music and tradition, a place where love and family obligation press on Perhan from every direction. Identity, belonging, the struggles of a marginalized community: the film carries that freight, but it carries it lightly, through colorful characters rather than speeches. Mostly what registers is how close Kusturica gets to poverty, none of the polite documentary distance, and how the movie manages to sting and stay warm at once.

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