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March 06, 2004
Jagoda in the Supermarket
Directed by Dusan Milic
Starring: Branka Katic, Srdjan Todorovic, Dubravka Mijatovic
Screenings: 3/5/04 7:15pm and 3/10/04 9:00 pm at Camera 1
This Serbian comedy is an utter delight! Jagoda works as a cashier at the new American Supermarket. When her coworker and "friend" steals a potential date, she is so frustrated that she refuses to sell an old lady strawberries for her only grandson's birthday. The next day, the grandson storms the supermarket with a machine gun, taking the workers and shoppers hostage and demanding to know who harassed his granny.
Naturally, things don't go exactly as he planned and soon the plainclothes inspector is trying to keep the old-school Serb SWAT team from just bombing the supermarket to smithereens.
This is a sweet film, laugh-out-loud funny in both the political and the romantic comedy spectrums. Katic and Todorovic are brilliant as Jagoda and the grandson, and the gentle jabs at American cultural and economic spread are thoroughly witty, especially in this day and age.
Posted by Ealasaid at March 6, 2004 02:56 PM
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