YU-Qwest's Movie Special Interest Group
Film Review
Boro Draskovic's ``Vukovar: Poste Restante``
Palm Springs Film Festival
1/24/95
The timeliest and certainly one of the most powerful films was
Boro Draskovic's ``Vukovar: Poste Restante,'' about the tearing
apart of a Croatian wife and her Serbian husband by the civil war
that turns their lives and their border town to rubble. Before
long, Mirjana Jorovic's face is glazed over by self-preserving
numbness following the death of her parents and her rape by
looters. Boris Isakovic, her husband, drafted into the Yugoslav
army, frantically goes AWOL to find her, but one of the film's
points is that the war's damage is internal as well as external and
that the war's wounds won't soon heal if they heal at all. This
jolting yet clearly humane film that wisely mutes its moral outrage
is sure to be shown in the United States. It will bring that
sickening war home to Americans as felt knowledge.
