Movie Trailer
Yesterday I screened the movie “In the Land of Blood and Honey.” I walked in skeptical, concerned it would be a vehicle made to tug at people’s heartstrings and inspire them to donate money to one of Angelina’s passionate causes. However, I was blown away by this movie. LOVED it!!
The film has everything a movie should have—excitement, intrigue, love story, conflict, tension and originality.
The acting is superb. The movie drew me in during the opening. It had my rapt attention until the end. Wow. It is a good one. My review to come shortly. It opens in theaters December 23rd. Go see it.
SYNOPSIS:
Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, In the Land of Blood and Honey is the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie. The film tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostić) and Ajla (Zana Marjanović), two people from different sides of a brutal ethnic conflict. Danijel (below, right), a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, (left) a Bosnian held captive in the camp that Danijel oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other.
But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain. In the Land of Blood and Honey portrays the incredible emotional, moral and physical toll that the war exerts both on individuals and people as a whole, and the terrible consequences that stem from the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict.
