Loving Glances
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| Loving Glances | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Srdjan Karanovic |
| Produced by | Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Zoran Cvijanovic, Milko Josifov |
| Starring | Senad Alihodzic, Ivana Bolanca |
| Cinematography | Radan Popovic |
| Edited by | Branka Ceperac, Branka Pavlovic |
| Music by | Zoran Simjanovic |
Release date | 2003 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
| Countries | Serbia and Montenegro UK |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian |
Loving Glances is a 2003 romantic comedy directed by Srdjan Karanovic
Synopsis
The film tells the story of Labud, a young student set adrift on the tide of refugees created by the ethnic strife in the region, and Romana a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the ethnic divide who meet and fall in love as displaced people in Belgrade of the mid nineties.
As they fall in love so the outspoken “ghosts” of their past visit them and try to keep them apart through a series of hilarious events in which the incorporeal attempt to interfere with the lives of the corporeal...
Production History
Eight years in the making "Loving Glances" began it’s life as a spec screenplay set in Belgrade, just before the signing of the Dayton agreement. As the war played itself out, Karanovic’s producers were trying to piece together the film in a Balkan patchwork of financing and locations.
As the UK and Serbian producers were about to close the financing structure and the film was only a few days away from going into pre-production, the battles between Milosevic’s army and the Kosovo’s KLA had intensified, and the NATO bombing of Milosevic’s Yugoslavia began. The country was cut off from the western world and the co-production was no longer possible.
Back to square one. The only other country in the region not at war and with the specific feel of the Balkans was Macedonia. The Macedonian Ministry immediately entered the project – the financing was essentially in place. A rewrite based on the Skopje locations and specific ethnicities was completed. But a period of political turbulence began in Macedonia as well, and the hope of making the film there gradually began to disappear.
In the middle of 2002, with Milosevic firmly behind bars in The Hague, the film finally came full circle back to Belgrade. When the Serbian Ministry of Culture established its National Film Fund an application was made and Loving Glances was finally able to gain the support it had needed.
Nominations and Awards
- Nominated Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival