*spoiler*
Grbavica tells the story of a hard-working woman and her daughter in Sarajevo. The daughter's school group is about to go on a trip. Those of the students whose fathers died as "martyrs" in the war are allowed a discount. Sara, the girl, is angry at her mother for not sending the certificate that would grant her the discount. It turns out that Sara's mother was raped.
Grbavica treats its subject without sentimentality. The style of the film is very restrained (there is hardly any music in the movie, for example) and most of the takes are long. Some storylines are perhaps not developed as much as they could have been (or there are too many strands). The theme - violence - permeats most of the storylines and the film presents people for whom the past haunts their day-to-day life.
Jasmila Zbanic made an important movie.
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