Ristovski's debut feature is unremittingly grim and powerful.
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05/25/06
Mirage (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 9
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Theatrical Release:Mar 17, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old first-time actor Marko Kovacevic delivers a riveting performance in this wrenching drama about the pain and pitfalls of false hope. Marko, who is from an abusive family, is also the... [More]
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Top CriticIt is not often that one is confronted with a cinematic social statement so nihilistic and so devoid of hope -- not merely for an individual, but for the whole world around him.
04/05/06
Top CriticA tense, gripping drama that urges Macedonians to reject the empty platitudes and conflicts of the past for a bold new future vision, and succeeds showing how false hope can indeed be the opiate that keeps people from taking direct action.
03/17/06
Drab, despairing and pointless.
03/17/06
Top CriticMarko is clearly a stand-in for an exhausted country, and the symbolism is, at times, oppressively heavy. But Ristovski needs us to feel his nation's torment, and he succeeds.
03/17/06
Top CriticThough its downward trajectory may be obvious, the script is a marvel of clarity, economy and metaphor.
03/16/06
Top CriticIt's a grim look at the life of one boy in a country that, at least in Mr. Ristovski's view, seems to have nothing but grimness to offer.
03/16/06
Top CriticMarko's story is far from novel, but its wicked evocation of hopelessness transcends any familiarities.
03/14/06
Top CriticThe social situation at the heart of 'Mirage/Iluzija' is so fraught with political implication that the film hits on both levels.
03/12/06
Svetozar Ristovski drags the corpse of Billy Elliott through sewer water in his appropriately titled Mirage--the film is so unreal, only a starved and weak-kneed cinesnob will be suckered in by it.
03/08/06
Disturbing and powerful.
03/06/06
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