The Eclipse

2022
1h 49m

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Eclipse explores filmmaker's upbringing during Yugoslav war through interviews with family, acquaintances. It meditates on traces of past in present through poetic imagery of landscapes over... Read allEclipse explores filmmaker's upbringing during Yugoslav war through interviews with family, acquaintances. It meditates on traces of past in present through poetic imagery of landscapes overlaid with father's journals from wartime.Eclipse explores filmmaker's upbringing during Yugoslav war through interviews with family, acquaintances. It meditates on traces of past in present through poetic imagery of landscapes overlaid with father's journals from wartime.

Director
- Natasa Urban
Writer
- Natasa Urban

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6.9/10

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Director
- Natasa Urban
Writer
- Natasa Urban

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 10 wins & 15 nominations total

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2/10

Mishmash of thoughts and images

I had a feeling that this was a kind of "documentary" that is mostly watched and praised by people who have produced it and their colleagues from "artsy" film festival network. Still, as someone who is genuinely interested in ex-Yugoslavian problems, I wanted to give it a chance.

Unfortunately, my feeling was right. It's just another exploitation of Yugoslavian past in a form of experimental, personal (of course), and visual essay that is barely comprehensible.

John Grierson did define documentary as "the creative treatment of actuality', but this mishmash of thoughts and images can truly appeal to a very few viewers.