No Man's Land

[Die Alive 0]

Anyone seen No Man's Land?  It's been out since December (I think) and just now it's opening in North America, and it has been nominated for a Academy Award (Best Foreign Lanuage Film) and won an award at 2001 Cannes Film Festival for best screenplay.  It's supposed to be funny yet serious at times (any movie with the UN has to have some fuuny moment).

Here's a synopsis:

'No Man's Land'

The Bosnia-Herzegovina civil war serves as the backdrop for No Man’s Land, easily one of the best movies of 2001 so far. Writer/director Danis Tanovic has created a movie that combines sharp satire with a powerful, even-handed look at a war that has no clear victors, only victims.

The film opens with a Croatian relief patrol attempting to get through a dense fog at nighttime, unaware of where they are or who might be out there waiting for them. Since they can barely see two feet in front of them, they decide to stop for the night. The following morning, the fog lifts and Serbs ambush them. The patrol is wiped out with the exception of one soldier, Ciki (Branko Djuric). Wounded and alone, Ciki manages to find cover by stumbling into a nearby trench.

The Serbs send out a two-man patrol to investigate. When the shooting subsides, Ciki finds himself face-to-face with Nino (Rene Bitorajac), a wounded Serb soldier. The two verbally spar back and forth for a while venting their hostility and hatred on each other until they realize that another man, a Serb who survived the ambush, is alive. The facts that he is laying on an active spring mine that will kill all three of them if he is moved further complicate the situation. Before long, both the United Nations peacekeeping forces and the foreign press become involved in the matter, escalating a small skirmish into an international political and media event.

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[jaxx 0]

Dang, I thought it was the movie about the 50 lesbians stranded on a desert island...