2003 · comedy · romance
Cheese and Jam
Directed by Branko Đurić1h 30m2003
A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and foremost, an attempt to tell a story about the worst in people, wherever they may be coming from.
Our read: Cheese and Jam (2003) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
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“You want a scrappy Slovenian comedy about underdogs, smuggling and messy relationships.”
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