Luna Papa (1999)
The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
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Wonderful Movie
I'll tell you why so serious
It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
This is a really sweet story about the East. A young girl becomes pregnant, and her father and brother want to find the papa.Of course, it's not an easy thing, so we can follow them on their long and funny trip.It's really serious at the start, and it becomes more and more absurd. At the end, when you think it's over, it takes a round, and goes on.With beautiful scenes, and with a Kusturica-styled humor.
It's such a great movie, the direction is perfect, the landscapes are beautiful, and the actors are really good. You can laugh a lot, but you don't lose a sense of reality (well, sometimes it's a little exaggerate). If you like Kusturica you can't miss it.
Splendid! In the beginning, I needed some time to accustom to the pictures. Then I realized, that I've been confused by some of the stage-like settings and, of course, by the "unnatural" colours. This is a quite ironic hommage to all the Cinemascope movies of the fifties an sixties, perhaps of some of the obscure ethnographic movies of the former Soviet Union...? Anyway, the camera, and some of the motifs, are producing a real American Western athmosphere. Remember the shooting of the gynaecologist: a Sergio Leone shootout! The visits at the grave: Four Sons of Katie Elder! The village - no contradiction, please! - is in effect a mexican one! But I suppose, that there had never been a Cinemascope movie with such a treasure of excentric, magic and witty ideas! By the way, the speed of action is influences by Emir Kusturica... The girl is really cute.. And a great comedy talent!
Do not waste your time and money for this movie.What is praised as an intelligent comedy is nothing than a chain of absurdities. Most are so silly that an intelligent person cannot laugh about them. The style reminds of "Agua para chocolate" but in that movie the absurdities and the phantasy elements are presented with humor.The director obviously wanted to create something similar to "The Tin Drum" (the voice of the unborn child, the fishes appearing again and again) but he evidently failed to do so.Some nice pictures of the Central Asian landscape do not compensate for the movie's flaws. (3/10)