Ovuda će proći put

Nina Ognjanović’s film is staged as a folk play. The plot is simple: the appearance of a new person brings confusion into the settled life of a small village. The local cop, sensing an opportunity to use his power, decides if the stranger can sit on the front porch of a grocery store. Two peasant brothers cast unkind glances at “the new one” and sharpen their knives. A restless local beauty, dreaming of leaving the village, follows the stranger on the heels. The film challenges all notions of what arthouse is and how to watch it. It plays with stereotypes about Southern Europe, revealing them from the inside. It wittily violates the plot development logic. Finally, it cleverly explores the romantic idealization of the “small homeland” that leads the members of the local community to fight against any signs of novelty and dissent.

Text: Ksenia Reutova