For this Sunday Slop Night, first up, by request, is Serbian war dramedy Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996), concerning a squad of Bosnian Serb soldiers who find themselves trapped in a tunnel by a Bosniak assault, with childhood friends finding themselves on opposite sides. Surely this will end happily. This is the best-known and most highly-regarded film of director Srdan Dragojevic, and is considered more broadly to be one of the best Serbian films of all time. We’ll give it a shot. After that is the Iranian meta-comedy-drama-thing about a girl who has to find her way home after her mom fails to pick her up from school. Where the hell did she go?! Also, the movie takes a cool meta turn after awhile. This is one of the highest-rated Iranian films on Letterboxd, and arguably the best-regarded of director Jafar Panahi’s career. Let’s watch.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame: https://letterboxd.com/film/pretty-village-pretty-flame/
• The Mirror: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-mirror/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116860/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• The Mirror: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117056/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Pretty Village, Pretty Flame:

• Sex. No nudity.
• Gun violence.
• Blood and gore.
• War crimes.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Confederate flag.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Profanity.
• Drug use.
• Suicide.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Mirror:

• Child in peril.
• Parental neglect.
• A child has a meltdown.

Links to movies:

• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame: https://vimeo.com/885865240
• The Mirror: https://vimeo.com/886037944