What to expect
The film narrows military conflict to a domestic space where national labels and personal obligation cannot remain neatly aligned.
How to ease in
Keep the changing relation between prisoner and household at the centre. The war explains the coercion, but small exchanges show why the assigned roles become unstable.
Heads-up
During conflict in the Balkans, a household is forced to accommodate an enemy prisoner, making war a matter of food, labour, and proximity.
A prisoner enters the house as a category before he can be seen as a person. I watch routine work undo some of the certainty that war brought through the door.
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A prisoner enters the house as a category before he can be seen as a person. I watch routine work undo some of the certainty that war brought through the door.
— Momo
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