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Underground (1995)

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Reviews Counted: 18

Fresh: 15

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 7.5/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A surreal, absurd mix of politics, sex, fantasty, black comedy and brutality that has been widely hailed as one of the decade's most exhilerating cinematic efforts. During World War II, a pair of... A surreal, absurd mix of politics, sex, fantasty, black comedy and brutality that has been widely hailed as one of the decade's most exhilerating cinematic efforts. During World War II, a pair of friends in the Serb resistance hide in an intricate cellar. Years later, the war is over but the lies and deceptions continue. Winner of the award for Best Film at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. [More]

Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Slavko Stimac, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic

Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Slavko Stimac, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic

Director: Emir Kusturica

Director: Emir Kusturica
Screenwriter: Emir Kusturica, Dusan Kovacevic

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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07/18/05
Emanuel Levy
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Brilliant, outrageous filmmaking. Underground is touching, hilarious, and new.

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06/29/04
Jake Euker
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05/23/04
Christopher Null
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04/19/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Emir Kusturica’s tragic-farce Underground may be the most important film of the last 25 years.

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12/21/03
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

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08/21/03
John Esther
Pasadena Weekly

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07/30/03
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A sprawling, imaginative, bold and impressive work.

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03/05/02
David Tse
Sight and Sound

Offers a zany overview of the treacherous path of politics in Yugoslavia leading to the outbreak of civil war in 1992.

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03/03/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A sprawling, rowdy, vital film laced with both outrageous absurdist dark humor and unspeakable pain, suffering and injustice.

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02/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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I suppose Kusturica can justify the 167-minute length by the historical breadth of the movie, but it simply doesn't sustain one's interest, significant or not.

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01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

One of the most ribald, risky and madcap war movies ever filmed.

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01/01/00
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

It's a snoozer.

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Dennis Schwartz
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Feverish, whimsical allegory elevated by moments of brilliant clarity.

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Janet Maslin
New York Times
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The film can be both frenetic and strained. But it also has has a great deal of power and can be quite haunting.

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Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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So passionate, so exciting and so very odd at times that most of its obvious faults can be forgiven.

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Jeff Vice
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