Storyline
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. |
Decent but occasionally heavy-handed anti-war film. The gimmicks are sometimes annoying: the interconnected stories, the circular timeline, the repeated motifs. Some of it is interesting, but it tends to come off as contrived. I thought the first story was by far the best and most profoundly moving. The second section just seems out of place and pointless. Things pick up a little with the third thread, but I didn't like the character much and by that point the gimmickiness was getting to me.