White White World
There are several mournful songs in (...) White White World that seem to emerge from the melancholy Balkan souls of its array of defeated characters struggling to find love and meaning in life. With a screenplay by noted Serbian playwright and poet Milena Markovic, Novkovic's tale is what he describes as "a miner's opera" set among men and women whose damaged lives reflect the poisoned remnants of a decaying mining town called Bor in southeast Serbia.
(...) Uliks Fehmiu plays an ex-miner known as King, who runs a local bar and pretty much does as he pleases. This includes having sex with a wild young beauty named Rosa (Hana Selimovic), whose mother Ruzicka (Jasna Djuricic) is a former lover who just got out of prison, [and] served time for killing her husband.
(...) The faces of the accomplished cast in close-up and the jagged industrial beauty of the deteriorating city in wide shots clash vividly in Miladin Colakovic's cinematography. They, too, get under the skin, along with the many melodic but haunting laments.
Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter
Duration: 120 min
Dialogue: Serbian
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
