Rent Black Cat, White Cat (1998)

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2h 4min
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Synopsis:
Black Cat White Cat is a riotous mix of farce, romance and crime. Set within a community of gypsies, it tells a story of dodgy deals, family ties, young love and magical occurrences. Zare is a young man in love with the beautiful Ida, but his crooked father, having botched up a black market deal, intends to marry him off to the sister of a powerful gangster - a woman so tiny that her nickname is Ladybird. Set on the banks of the Danube, this colourful comedy is crammed with spectacle, incident and the music of Emir Kusturica's famous travelling gypsy band.
Actors:
, , , Florijan Ajdini, , , Sabri Sulejmani, , , , , Salija Ibraimova, , Adnan Bekir, , Asim Dzemaili, Seco Cerimi, Safre Dernaj, Nebojta Krstagic,
Directors:
Writers:
Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic
Aka:
Crna macka, beli macor
Studio:
Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
Genres:
Romance
Collections:
Lions on the Lido
Countries:
Serbia
Awards:

1998 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion

BBFC:
Release Date:
22/05/2006
Run Time:
124 minutes
Languages:
Srbo-Croatian Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Emir Kusturica Biography
  • Theatrical Trailer

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Reviews (6) of Black Cat, White Cat

a very "happy" film - Black Cat, White Cat review by CP Customer

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13/01/2007

The film is very energetic and funny and full of a zest for life, and just plain mad at times. Yet you still care for the characters, and the story, in all the chaos, does have a direction to it - the director pulls it off brilliantly.

I very much enjoyed it and it also left me in a good mood for the day

3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

Quite insane -- but in a good way. - Black Cat, White Cat review by MS

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10/10/2018

The other two review said the film was quite crazy, and they're right. The plot -- such as it was -- was rambling and weird, and yet it kept your attention all the way through. The characters were attractive and convincingly human, navigating their way through the mad onrush of events. And the music was wonderful. I didn't expect to even like it -- but I loved it.

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

Black Cat, White Cat - Black Cat, White Cat review by sh

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02/03/2021

sometime you'll hold a story or event from your own life so close to your heart, kept in the chamber of the mouth to tell instantly because its full of wild things, happenstance, things someone said that felt like it was the first time anyone said it, the physical movement of a slip, the roaring of blood to your face as you cried with laughter, the theme-park gut drop as you went pale with fear. the full story rounded into a perfectly sanded sphere you love regaling.

thats Black Cat, White Cat.

a pig eating a car, a dead man strung to a rail crossing pole with an umbrella, a man cleaning shite off himself with a live goose, a bride escaping her own wedding by hiding in a fake tree stump, a dead body wearing an ice bag facemask, a giant driving around a decorated shed on the back of a yute.

Kusturica's vision is one massively of completely charmed chaos, where it feels like there are about 40 people behind the camera choreographing the scene, but they fell asleep on the take they used. its so pulsating, rhythmic. weird and funny. theres almost nothing as completely defined and directed, yet so shambolic and physical.

its like he sold his soul to the gods of timing.

his kitchen-sinked gypsy aesthetics feel like a themepark made in a scrapyard. hoses, broken kettles, upended tables. a complete dust-junk heaven.

if you ever wanted to see and feel the chaotic miasma of a shotgun wedding, Black Cat White Cat gives you: a shotgun wedding, a double wedding, death, resurrection and a sleeping child and an old man being launched out a car on their wheelchair with a goat.

genuinely the most joyous experience ive had all year watching films. this is so so fucking funny man. probably shouldve been as big as Delicatessen (1991) tbh

please watch this

0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.

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