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As If I Am Not There
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Set during the Bosnian war of the 1990s, and based on a true story, Samira (Petrovic) is a schoolteacher who leaves Sarajevo in order to take up a summer post in a small, remote mountainside village. Within days though, Samira and the rest of the village’s women are taken away by Serbian soldiers; the men are shot. Samira soon finds herself in the joy division of the soldiers’ camp…
THE VERDICT: It’s a hard-hitting story, and one that should be told. Only trouble is, Juanita Wilson doesn’t seem quite capable of doing Slavenka Drakulic’s book justice, As If I’m Not There playing like a dull TV movie. The fact that it won two major awards at the recent IFTA reflects more on that organization (short for, of course, “Ifta person is in the country…”) than it does on this so-so drama.
Review by Paul Byrne
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