The Optimists (Optimisti) (2006)
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83% of users liked it
(174 ratings)
The five stories in The Optimists are inspired by Voltaire's famous satirical novel Candide and its motto: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad." The setting is present day, post-Milosevic Serbia. Painted with black humour, these stories reflect a time… More The five stories in The Optimists are inspired by Voltaire's famous satirical novel Candide and its motto: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad." The setting is present day, post-Milosevic Serbia. Painted with black humour, these stories reflect a time filled with hope and despair, real optimism and false; a time when fiction and reality co-exist side by side, and when many people fish in the troubled waters of lost illusions. The acclaimed actor Lazar Ristovski ("Underground", "The Powder Keg" aka "Cabaret Balkan" in the USA, "Midwinter Night's Dream") takes a role in each of the five stories. -- (C) Zillion
- Directed By
- Goran Paskaljevic
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 27, 2011 Limited
- Studio
- Zillion Film
Critic Reviews
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
The screenplay is blunt and to the point, and the performances are subtly tinged with a surreal comic edge.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety
These five stories set in post-Milosevic Serbia are unrelated beyond their general air of disillusionment, providing little satisfaction individually or as a whole.
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Bill Weber, Slant Magazine
This autumnal statement compensates for its fixed despair with bracing wit and a willingness to see acceptance of misery as the best of all possible options.
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