This pleasant if inconsequential romantic comedy from the Croatian director Hrvoje Hribar is distinguished by its good-natured sensibility and rowdy, slightly fabulous tone: a kind of Eastern European magic realism, without the magic.
What Is a Man without a Moustache?(Što je muškarac bez brkova?)
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Croatia · 2005
1h 49m
Director Hrvoje Hribar
Starring Zrinka Cvitešić, Leon Lučev, Ivo Gregurević, Robert Ugrina
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
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A young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
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Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall
The humor loses momentum as the cleric shuns her advances, and the action grows frenetic following the arrival of his twin brother, a macho general.
Director Hrvoje Hribar gives a lively professional look to this good-humored film.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Sardonic and steeped in the tumultuous history of the former Yugoslavia, this absurdist comedy of contemporary mores can be appreciated even without intimate knowledge of its specific cultural context.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Hribar's film is not remarkable or ingenious in its creation of ethnic gusto and peripheral naturalism, but it's adept enough for a pass on M:i:III.
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