Each hero of Emir Kusturica would like to fly away.
Emir Kusturica : I had a professor in Prague who said to me “One makes the difference between a bad film and a good film by the fact that in good film, the characters seems to escape from gravity”. I said to myself then, why not straightforwardly make people fly like Chagall?
![]() | Do you remember Dolly Bell ? To fly is Dino's obesssion… |
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![]() | When father was away on business Malik is sleepwalking. At the end of the film, he even flies away… |
![]() | Time of the Gypsies At the time of Saint-Georges day, Pehran dreams that he flies with his turkey in his arms… At the end of film, when Perhan meets the new wife of Ahmed, just deceased. She pull a gun and says to him ”I will kill you, even if you were a bird”. Perhan dies and sees the turkey metamorphosed in cloud and flapping its wings in front of him… an image retaken later in Underground. |
![]() | Arizona Dream Elaine et Axel spend their time building flying machines… |
![]() | Underground For her wedding, Jovan's wife makes a mystical levitation exercise. In this scene, one finds clearly the inspiration of Marc Chagall. |
![]() | Black Cat, White Cat He won't fly away, but this funny machine reminds those of Axel in Arizona Dream, doesn't it ? |
![]() | Life is a miracle Luka is sick in his bed, and Sabaha joins him. They start to dream… the bed flies and they start floating around the gorgeous area of Mokra Gora… |
![]() | Promise me this The films is rythmed by the appearances of the canonball man flying over the town in a very surealistic way… |