Rent Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)

Sarajevo Sunshine - Do You Remember Dolly Bell? review by MW

A delightful comedy in which the ever playful Serbian director Emir Kusturica boldly pokes fun at communism (the film was made nine years before the fall of the Berlin Wall) by reducing it to a symbolic, dysfunctional family. A drunken, whimsical father periodically summons his family to the kitchen table to try and improve their lot by aping meetings of the local party hierarchy. Absurd and inconclusive instructions are issued to the family while his younger son is hoiked out of bed to take the minutes. Determined attempts at hypnotism by an older, teenage son - the movie's central figure who falls for a beguiling local trollop - are set against his father's dogmatic ravings. It's a none too subtle observation of life under dictatorship beautifully told and gloriously chaotic.