NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Mija Dragicevic (jefimijadragicevic)
I've had great luck to read in media about the Croatian movie titled „You Carry Me" and watch it in cinema in Zagreb, during my trip to Croatia. The most important is the fact, that I didn't hear the silence in the cinema after movie projection. After two and a half hours, I saw people who talked about their opinions, discuss about the movie and that was definitely a great success of the film itself. This movie brings alive three fantastic stories, which describe rarely film narrated relations between daughters and their fathers. I was delighted how those multidimensional, realistic and complex relationships were great processed in this film and how all characters are trying to find their piece of happiness and achievement, in their attempts to self-realization and understanding of the closest people around them.I assume that the casting for this movie was very demanding job, but film Director and Screenwriter Ivona Juka did the right thing with great casting and we can see a number of good actresses and actors in her film. I would point out great Croatian actresses: Natasa Janjic, Natasa Dorcic, Lana Baric, little girl Helena Beljan and her first role in the film at all. Equally, I would single out great actors, especially Croatian amateur actor Goran Hajdukovic, Slovenian actor Sebastian Cavazza and our famous Serbian actor Vojislav Brajovic in his brilliant role. I am very glad that Serbia is one of the film's co-producers.With this great casting and film story, with beautiful music, great screenplay, beautiful photography and powerful production, film director and screenwriter Ivona Juka managed to get close to us strong emotions, love and hope, the things we really needed today.
Mashinica
„You Carry Me" is actually a really untypical movie for a country like Croatia. Still burdened by the war which happened over 20 years ago,and today burdened by hard economic status which is not getting any better, Croats and Croatian cinematography, unfortunately, centers their themes around this widely known situations. And what is yet to be discovered is why Croatian cinematographers hesitate to explore less familiar grounds. Ivona Juka is obviously not that kind of a filmmaker. Although she has admitted the story has some biographical elements, Juka's „You Carry Me" is nothing like the movies to which Croatian audience is used to. Powerful female characters dominate this three-way-divided story, presented in a non-traditional roles, which is rarely seen in such conservative society. Well written and smartly directed, „You Carry Me" will carry you to the new era of Croatian filmmaking. Made in co-production with Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro,it was expected Juka would search for actors outside the domesticborders. Fortunately, Vojislav Brajović was selected for the role, a Serbian actor who has probably won all the prizes there were to win in former Yugoslavia. Hence, my favorite story of all three is the first one, about demented father, whose daughter Ives (Lana Barić) is trying to cope with his illness. But don't underestimate the power of the second story. Helena Beljan's debut role (Dora), for which she was awarded a prize in Pula Film Festival, is refreshing, and in great balance with acting of her outlawed father Vedran (Goran Hajduković), who also happens to be a first time actor. The idea of a little girl whose role model is a controversial football manager Zdravko Mamić (currently under investigation in Croatia), is so superb, and well executed. And while watching the first two stories, I was wondering what's happening in the third one, and how can it possibly be better than the first two? And to be honest, I was hesitating in the beginning. The story of Nataša didn't seem special in any way, she was being cheated on, and she was trying to cope with it. But by the end of the third story (and the whole film), everything made sense. I won't reveal any more details, I'll let the viewers see for themselves why the third story was put right in the end, and why the exact title of the movie is „You Carry Me". The tag line of the movie is „No treason, no surrender". So I'm inviting everyone not to surrender and not to lose hope in Croatian filmmaking. Just like all the characters in the movie, and every single person on this planet, Juka is trying to find her place under the sun. And she is doing it right – by doing what she probably loves the most – enriching our nation's „seventh art"
GreenPandora
I was lucky to had the chance to watch this movie during my trip to Zagreb, amazingly enough Zagreb's movie theater had English subtitles so foreigners and tourist like me where able to enjoy this great movie. The astonishing thing about the stories in this movie is that they are so relateable to everyone, in one way or in the other we have experienced what the characters experience. You carry me characters makes you live the story with them, they make you feel what they feel, this movie gives you an (positive) emotional roller coaster. It is incredible how captured you get by the story, how you live every moment with the characters. It is one of the better movies I have seen lately, and I truly hope that everyone who will have the chance will go to the Cinema and enjoy it as much as I did.
miloshevili
This movie is an intimate and deeply moving work of art which explores the nature of human relations.Made of three separate but interconnected stories, Juka manages to fragment the story lines in such a way that they don't feel disconnected or broken down. Ivona Juka resembles the likes of Inarritu in her directorial style, and even though i don't like comparing those styles one to another because i believe every great director is great in his own right, i do think that Juka is indeed a great director. Even though this is her directorial debut, she proves to us that we can expect many bright things from her in the future. A complex story, even though a lengthy 2 and a half hours, the movie doesn't give you an excuse to look up your watch, constantly focusing your attention at the events on screen. What i respect the most is, even though the themes explored are rather serious and follow our everyday problems, the whole movie is actually quite uplifting and upbeat, and this sensation follows you after you've exited the theater, when you're thinking about the movie and when you're talking about the movie and it's still with me while i'm here writing this short review. I give the movie a shining 10!
