It’s easy to tell a war story with a big budget, thousands of extras and plenty of gunfire and explosions. It’s much more difficult to tell a war story with none of the bells and whistles of mass distraction and show how war affects people on an individual, human scale. Director Danis Tanovic does a brilliant job of it in this riveting film set in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It’s the story of a young man and his mother and how their life is uprooted when the boy’s father – in political exile for 20 years – returns home to rule over the family and the rest of the town. The fact that he has his young future wife in tow is just one example of the cruelty the man brings with him, a cruelty based more on his bitterness at being exiled than in his belief in the future of his country. It’s not always an easy story to watch, but Tanovic is able to find humanity in even the darkest behavior, a saving grace in a story like this.
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