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Before the Rain

Before the Rain (Pred Dozdot)

1994

FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia)

Milcho Manchevski

Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska ...

7.6

3,668

Drama The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Manchevski tells his story elegantly and leaves his audience with a warning too strong to be ignored"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is one of the year's best films, a brilliant directorial debut (...) Work like this is what keeps me going, month after month and film after film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[Manchevski] presents his message with a sublime intensity (...) The film is as rich in symbols as in narrative (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Deborah Young Variety	"A visually and narratively stunning tale (...) [A] heartfelt, poetic and violently anti-violent film"	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"What it loses in novelty and subtlety it makes up for in its earnest depiction of love and individual human decency in the face of societal cruelty (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"[It is] tense and moving, perhaps because there's something undeniable about its bleak depiction of ancient tribal conflicts in the Balkans."	POS

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