A widow in communist Yugoslavia has regrets and judgmental neighbors. Rural despair has never looked so gorgeously bleak.
As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernization, the Widow Karolina wishes she had become a mother. As difficult as things are for her, they are nonetheless much more difficult for her more-conservative and less-thoughtful neighbors.
Acting
Milena Zupančič's face carries entire decades of unspoken longing.
Cinematography
Slovenian countryside shot like a memory that's already fading.
Direction
Klopčič lets scenes breathe until you feel the village's suffocation yourself.
Director
Matjaž Klopčič
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