Srđan Vučinić

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The Gold Rush

Every Chaplin's gag is revived, every object becomes an antropomorphism to suit the main character. Charlie-Trump pokes fun at the automation and necrosis of our modern time - like a biblical David he hits crucial flaws of inhuman capitalist civilization with a slingshot.

ZÉRO DE CONDUITE

A unique fusion of anarchism and vitalism, Zero de conduite is a true manifesto of liberated cinematography.

Ikiru

The surprising plot about an impersonal clerk whose real life begins in the state of terminal illness is not only a critique of Japan's post World War II Westernization, but is very essence of existential philosophy, ennobled by Far Eastern wisdom.

The Exterminating Angel

Bunuelian surreal imagery in perfect oneiric harmony, his subversiveness and blasphemy taken to extremes in this grotesque parable on the theme of the apocalypse.

LJUBAVNI SLUCAJ ILI TRAGEDIJA SLUZBENICE PTT

Made in the ambiguity between the poetry of shiny everyday life and the Freudian essay on the dark instinctive forces of the human being, Love Affair is a real perl of the Yugoslav black wave.

Brazil

The absurd bundle of pipes and tubes that stretches across the entire interior of this Monty Pythonian distopia like an antediluvian monster, remind us of the hawk-eyed Leviathan of power that grows today through the internet and social networks.

OFFRET SACRIFICATIO

Probably the best auteur film on the theme of possible nuclear war and the annihilation of our world; made in Tarkovsky's meditative style with long shots, Sacrifice is a remarkable encounter between Rennaissance ideals and Far Eastern culture.

Wings of Desire

Ingenious praise of the temporality and imperfection of human existence in the face of (versus) the spiritual supersensory and eternity of angels.

KRÓTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU

Based on the biblical Ten commandments, The Short Film About Killing as a whole Kiselowsky's Decalogue gives shape and meaning to the vast panorama of Eastern European history, full of nonsense, sound and fury.

Taste of Cherry

A tract on suicide and the meaning of life, masterfully built on silence, the hidden, the unsaid. A metaphysical road movie, shot entirely through the glasses of a car.

Further remarks

Panta rei

In this poll my top ten films are arranged in chronological order. There are many more than 10 best films, perfect, astonishing, disturbing in all their segments for me. But these ten votes reflect perhaps most intimate of all my "best films" at this very moment.