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82
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82
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81
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80
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69
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57
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54
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54
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52
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50
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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16
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Black Cat, White Cat
USA Films
MPAA RATING: R for strong language, drug use and some violence.
Starring
Bajram Severdzan,
Srdjan Todorovic,
and
Branka Katic
The film centers around a group of gypsies who live on the banks of the Danube River. (USA Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Emir Kusturica
Gordan Mihic
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Emir Kusturica
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Video: January 4, 2000
Theatrical: September 10, 1999
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
135 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / France / Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Romany / Serbo-Croatian (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Astonishing, crazily delightful.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A warm embrace of tradition and boisterous, ethnographically rich local culture.

91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It romps along with infectious good humor but continually imparts a sense that underneath all the surreal frivolity lurks a scathing allegory of modern-day Balkan troubles.
88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The perfect film for anyone who finds the Keystone Cops a little too understated and I mean that as a compliment.
88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
One frenetic movie that doesn't know when to quit -- and leaves you wishing it could go on forever.
84
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
An explosive experience...and you have to love the movie's rabid energy and lust.
80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
There's something almost wearying as well as exhilarating about the perpetual brilliance of Bosnian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica.

80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Made with such overriding jubilation that its coarseness is mostly liberating...well worth admiring for its sheer glee.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Kusturica works marvels with his endlessly amusing cast, and his film has an appealingly free and easy tone.

80
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends, new loves and the mad scramble of life at the fringe.

75
New York Post
Rod Dreher
(Kusturica) celebrates its gaudy humanity in a joyous picture that is his most lighthearted and amusing work to date.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
This is not comfortable comedy.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The gusto in the flying bullets, the fleeing lovers, and the flowing music will make you want to hang around until the party is over.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A wild, endlessly inventive romp set in a post-war world so full of machine-guns and hand-grenades that people barely flinch when one or the other goes off.

70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's thrilling to see something this profane, mythic and, most of all, not bored with life, love and the possibilities of cinema.

70
Film.com
Henry Cabot Beck
An absurdist Eastern European version of "The Godfather," starring the Marx Brothers (and sisters and nephews and...).

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Farcical mayhem. A convoluted plot that's easy to follow but hard to describe.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The slapstick is broad to the point of overkill.

50
Film.com
Robert Horton
There is a point in the movie when this mayhem crosses the line from wildly imaginative to downright insufferable.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Their shenanigans rarely run short of explosive energy.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Determined to twist every character into an ideogram for vulgar humanity.


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