Yash Wade
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Maleeha Vincent
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
oarch
Now I'm not saying this is a masterpiece, but it is nonetheless a very interesting movie. It is definitely worth seeing, if you get a chance.The storyline follows the life of a child whose posh family disintegrated following the arrival of communists in Belgrade, Serbia.The loss of his family, societal status and dignity and the perceived lack of morals in the communist society drives him further and further away from the mainstream and into loneliness, depression and murderous obsession.The movie maybe tries a little too hard to represent the post-war communist society as a parade of ignorant, unsophisticated and violent peasants, freshly arrived from the mountains and villages but already ruling every aspect of the new society.The film is really about violence, and about painful changes in society that war and violent revolutions bring.
Yuriy
"Vec vidjeno" is the greatest masterpiece of all times. Goran Markovic is one of the greatest directors. This film features excellent acting of Mustafa Nadarevic and Anica Dobra, charming and touching music, sounding in the film. The music creates this mysterious atmosphere which charming spectators. Crossing of today's events and past events made in a very appropriate way. And it proves the Markovic' skill. Look at the Anica Dobra and her appearance and you will realize that she ideally matches the film character! What about Mustafa Nadarevic? He matches even more! Look at furnishings of past events! How it corresponds to reality! The greatest work of the great director and actors!
Oggz
Goran Markovic's 1987 "Vec vidjeno" (aka Deja Vu) certainly was an ambitious production; heralded in the local press at the time of its release as "the first real Yugoslav urban psycho-thriller/horror", it left both the critics and the previously Hitchcock/Polanski/DePalma/Carpenter-educated audiences fairly unimpressed and it's easy to see why: the story told by the film - and the way it's told - is not just derivative, it's a half-baked catalogue of genre clichés hastily stitched together in hope they would all work in the end and in the domestic setting. Sadly, they didn't. The acting is fairly wooden thanks to a contrived dialogue (Mustafa Nadarevic, in his first, and very likely last role as a sexually frustrated/Oedipally challenged piano-teacher-come-psychopathic-killer is badly miscast and as such barely watchable; even more so and to the point of embarrassment is Anica Dobra - as ever in dire need of more acting/elocution lessons - as the leggy blonde-object-of-his-attention/attraction). Always reliable character actors such as Olivera Markovic and Bogdan Diklic are left with little or nothing to do in their supporting roles, and the film haemorages heavily towards its heavy handed, clumsy and sluggish "dramatic" climax, burdened further still by Zoran Simjanovic's microwave-friendly but ultimately putrid music score.The only half-redeeming aspect of the production in this feature is a studious (sometimes conspicuously so) effort to make this a "period piece" - the story is supposed to be happening in the early seventies - by way of costumes, hairdos, set designs and art direction, such attention to detail being relatively rare in Yugoslav cinema of the time, and this is where the film gathers its few good points; further back in the past, the childhood flashback sequences are nicely shot, all steeped in the nostalgic golden-orange sfumato seeping into luxurious rooms of pre-war Belgrade from between the curtains and/or blinds, and so on. Still, the overall impression is the one of directorial ineptness in the face of the demands of the genre, despite obvious fondness of it (Markovic had already flirted with the thriller/horror genre once before, in his 1982 "Variola vera", and to marginally less questionable effect). "Vec vidjeno/Deja Vu" is hardly his best effort, and is today of interest only to local film buffs and unselective Yugoslav movie collectors, such as the author of this comment.
nixona
In my opinion, "Vec vidjeno" is the best movie of Goran Markovic (and all of them are great), one of the best Serbian directors.It's done in cognizable Markovic's way. The story is great (it is by Markovic, also), acting of Mustafa Nadarevic is superb, Zoran Smijanovic's music is excellent as everything else in this movie.It is a horror movie, which is not a typical Yugoslav genre, [besides "Davitelj protiv davitelja" (which is more like comedy) and "Leptirica" I can't think of another], but it is done in a way that Hitchcock would envy.
If any film deserves the Oscar then this is the one!
