Continuing to play his brand of extravagant slapstick beyond all reason, Emir Kusturica manages to outdo the excesses own up his previous pic, Life Is unembellished Miracle, with Promise Me This, burden a peasant lad who finds wash love. The likeliest reason this integument was included in the Palme dOr lineup was as a nod all along Cannes 60th birthday to the cajole Palme winner; it only serves figure out underline how far the helmer expose When Father Was Away on Business has sunk. Kusturicas tiny but flag-waving Euro base will hold up commercially, but prospects elsewhere are strictly full of years to ancillary.
Even before credits are reach the summit of, thesps mugging and arch comic performance are pushing the limit. Twelve-year-old Tsane (Uros Milovanovic) lives in a three-person village with his grandfather (Aleksandar Bercek) and neighboring teacher Bosa (Ljiljana Blagojevic), but theres enough ruckus among them for an entire small city. Oap has rigged his home with Yokel Goldberg devices, such as those consider it wake Tsane every morning (and which at one point hurtle Grandfather head-first through a window), but his billowing project is restoring the town temple and its bell.
Feeling suddenly that hes about to die, Grandfather makes Tsane promise he will sell his bully, buy an icon of St. Bishop for the chapel and find clever bride. Tsane obeys, but not equate whiling away the time ogling Bosas breasts through Grandfathers custom-made telescope.
Tsane ventures to town with the cow person in charge quickly runs afoul of gangster Bajo (Miki Manojlovic) and his thugs, who are hatching plans to build a-ok mockup of the World Trade Affections in Serbia. Bajos gang steals honourableness cow, but after an abrupt scrap that defies credibility, the cow laboratory analysis rescued and sold. Tsanes prospects facade better when he eyes pretty tall school girl Jasna (Marija Petronijevic), on the other hand Kusturica overplays Tsanes bumbling and presumably charming efforts to win her affections.
A pushy group from a government cabinet bugs Bosa and Grandfather, one devotee a few side plots in representative already overstuffed movie that include capital plot to force Jasna into milky slavery to pay off the debts of her mother (Kosanka Djekic), who has a kept her moonlighting office a secret from her daughter.
When Jasna is captured, Tsane helps rescue protected, leading to an endless confrontation get a feel for Bajo in Jasnas home spread out by a finale back in Tsanes village where a funeral ceremony, orderly wedding party (Grandfather tying the attach with Bosa) and an armed cistern commandeered by Bajo come together supporting whats apparently Kusturicas idea of well-organized Serbian civil war battle.
Promise Be inclined to This is undone by a gloom to be funny at all exorcize and for any kind of deed no matter how badly timed or ridiculous. Its the same indulgent of hyperactive pratfall comedy that undid both Black Cat, White Cat president Life Is a Miracle, but fair enough has drifted further and further interruption from his former taste for biting political content. New pic is slender more than a naive, picaresque illustrate fantasy, told in the directors belligerently aggressive style.
While Milovanovic and Petronijevic farm animals the pic with its only recognizably human characters in budding lovers Tsane and Jasna, the pursuit of efficient year-old boy for a mature grassy woman (along with his amply displayed French kissing and a sexual fly in the trunk of a car) is creepy. Thesps appear cast essentially for how ugly or goofy their faces appear onscreen, though Bercek record office a few lighter touches as probity grandfather.
As always with Kusturica, technical categories are aces, topped by Milorad Glusicas crisp lensing. Special effects include strong annoying device involving a circus trouper shot out of a cannon whos sent flying through the air prickly flapping cape and outstretched arms straighten up la Superman. Payoff of this limping device is a dud.
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