No Man's Land Review |
by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: B) |
NO MAN'S LAND (director/writer/music: Danis Tanovic; cinematographer: Walther
Vanden Ende; editor: Francesca Calvelli; cast: Branko Djuric (Tchiki), Rene
Bitorajac (Nino), Filip Sovagovic (Tsera), Simon Callow (Colonel Soft), Katrin
Cartlidge (Jane...more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Edward Johnson-Ott |
No Man's Land (2001)
Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis,
Serge-Henri Valcke, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge. Written, scored and
directed by Danis Tanovic. In Bosnian, French, and English with
subtitles. 98 minutes....more |
No Man's Land Review |
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
It's been and gone but now it's back again, briefly and limitedly, on the
strength of its Oscar® nomination for this year's Best Foreign Language
Film (good luck going up against "Amélie" is all I can say). more |
No Man's Land Review |
by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10) |
PLOT:
A Croat and a Serb get stranded in the middle of a battleground between two
sides of the Bosnian war. The men do not like each other, but attempt to stay
civil throughout. When they discover another man in the trench with a mine stuck
under him,...more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
Danis Tanovic's NO MAN'S LAND is an absurdist anti-war film about both sides
being hopelessly locked into pointless battles with each other in the former
Yugoslavia. A film that would have resonated more before September 11, its
portrayal of soldiers as...more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Susan Granger (Rating: 10/10) |
Susan Granger's review of "NO MAN'S LAND" (UA/MGM)
One of the best foreign language films of 2001, "No Man's Land" tells
the bizarre tale of two wounded soldiers, a Bosnian and a Serb, trapped in a
trench between enemy lines during the 1993...more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Christopher Null |
Modern wars (at least, those not involving the U.S.) aren't fought man
to man, or even tank to tank. They're fought in the dead of night, when
everyone thinks the United Nations "peacekeepers" aren't watching. By
day, the U.N. "smurfs" (so called...more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Harvey S. Karten |
Reviewed by Harvey Karten
United Artists
Director: Danis Tanovic
Writer: Danis Tanovic
Cast: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Simon
Callow, Katrin Cartlidge
Screened at: MGM Screening Rm. NYC 8/28/01 more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Robin Clifford |
A squad of Bosnian soldiers creeps through the fog-shrouded nightscape
toward the Serbian lines. When daylight breaks and the fog lifts, the men
find themselves under the guns of the Serb forces and are cut apart with
only one, Chiki (Branco Djuric),...more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B) |
When a Bosnian relief squad gets lost in the fog, only one, Ciki (David
Straitharn look alike Branko Djuric), survives, but he finds himself stuck with more |
No Man's Land Review |
by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10) |
The production notes for Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land give you an early
indication of the kind of humor his film about the Bosnian-Serb conflict
will contain. Tanovic explains that Serbs, Croats and Bosnians each have
their own language, yet when they...more |