"Tito and Me" - welll,,,,,,,,,,,,, - Victor Khomenko

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"Tito and Me" - welll,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Don't read too much in the post title - it is a recommended movie. In fact, strongly recommended. It is just that it comes with a baggage.
We are all suckers for kids on screen - let's just admit it. In fact, showing kids or animals is considered a low blow in "serious cinema". But now and then we all fall pray to such simple things.
How many times have we seen a move made from a young boy's perspective? We don't get tired of them because most of them (those I know at least) are usually also good and interesting.
Well, here is one more. And even if you will not consider it a masterpiece, you will most likely love it.
It is about a boy's adventures in the Tito's Yogoslavia - natch... The movie soars off the ground like the space shuttle. You get one hilarious sequence after another, most done with very good insight and taste. A communal-apartment-like living of a large family with many subtle and humorous details.
Then it reaches its peak. Then it fizzles. The last thirty minutes or so are mostly tedious, with a fairly inexperienced director losing some degree of control and purpose. Not unusual and a perfectly excusable offense - a fault of omission, not commission, as some of us would say.
Does this make it bad? Not at all, just less than perfect. With a movie like that it is nearly impossible to sustain the high degree of interest and excitement for an hour and a half. Only few truly great directors had managed this feat.
But you will get a short condensed encyclopedia of life under a totalitarian regime. You will witness the daily relentless pressure and humiliation - something the peope there had to deal with every day.
Does all that sound like a good justification for that $2 rental fee?
All in all, a pretty good movie weekend. Neutral on "Ostambul", very nice on "Sexual Lives of the Belgians" and quite good on "Tito and Me". Well, some sour notes too, but who cares...

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Topic - "Tito and Me" - welll,,,,,,,,,,,,, - Victor Khomenko 05:59:40 07/24/00 (3)

speaking of a character named Tito - Mart 05:24:52 07/25/00 (2)

I think I know that film - Victor Khomenko 07:06:09 07/25/00 (1)

Re: I think I know that film - Mart 09:52:45 07/25/00 (0)

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