Yadi loves "international" movies - he doesn't love the typical Hollywood Blockbusters, rather, he enjoys independent films, the kind shown in film festivals like Cannes. I wouldn't typically seek out these kinds of movies, but since meeting him, I have come to enjoy these independent films. Last night we watched one which was very moving. "Before the Rain" is set in Macedonia, during the civil war in Bosnia. The violence has spread over in to Macedonia, everyone is carrying guns and there are hints that a civil war is on the brink. There are three parts, or stories, in this movie which are connected together. The movie's theme (as far as I can understand) is the idea of the circularity of violence and how it affects everyone. The characters in the movie all come from different backgrounds (Albanian Muslim, Macedonian award winning photographer, and London photography editor) but they are all linked together through shared experiences of violence. I don't want to say too much about the movie for fear of ruining it, but it is a story about love, war, the effects of war, and the idea of taking sides.
My only critique of the movie are that there are some inconsistencies in the story which leave the viewer (or at least me) confused about the time line of events (i.e. when the woman in London is looking at pictures of something that hasn't happened yet). Yadi and I actually had to turn off the movie and hash out the sequence of events.
Keep your tissues out because this movie is a tear jerker.
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