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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : No Man's Land cleverly plays on our expectations from previous war films about how this scenario is supposed to develop, then douses the flickering flames of fantasy with a bucket of realistic cold water. In this film, there are no heroes, only victims. And, in addition to getting into World War I-style trenches overflowing with the mutual despite of the Bosnians and Serbs, Tanovic takes a damning view of the United Nations' bungling and how the media manipulates, and is manipulated by, the military. more...
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www.cinema-scene.com - : For a film made by a Bosnian army veteran and with Bosnian money, No Man's Land is surprisingly neutral in laying its disdain. Both of the central characters are bent on blaming the other and unwilling to admit any fault of their own side. Tanovic's main idea is that the blame is essentially on ideas, which have brought about hatred between these two sides. Ethnicity has created a war between people who are practically the same (Chiki and Nino soon find that they knew the same girl when they were young). And this is not a film about making everything well by showing these two people can come together once their aggression has been placed aside. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Set in the same place and about the same war, ''No Man's Land'' is like the grown-up version of ''Behind Enemy Lines.'' It's a bleakly funny parable that could be titled ''Between Enemy Lines.'' In Bosnia in 1993, Serbs and Croats find themselves trapped in the same trench. Anyone who sticks his head up gets shot. And when will that land mine explode? more...
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