In Zrinko Ogresta's "On the Other Side," Vesna (Ksenija Marinković), a middle-aged nurse in Zagreb, Croatia, finds her tranquil life interrupted when her husband, Žarko (Lazar Ristovski), reappears following a prison sentence for crimes committed in wartime during the early 1990s. Indeed, this enigmatic trailer raises more questions about the characters'—and the region's—past than it answers. "Why," Vesna asks at one point, "are you doing this to me?" Read More: "Berlin's Panorama Section to Feature Chantal Akerman, Rebecca Miller, More" Using history as a lens through which to view the present is nothing new to Ogresta, who also works as a professor of film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb—he received a European Film Award nomination in 1991 for Best Young Director for his first feature, "Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing," about a family torn apart by World War II and the Communist...
- 1/20/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
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