This movie, like Underground, is so brilliant, so inventive, so full of ideas & images & imagination & feeling & humanity & humor that beside it American/Hollywood movies are like Campbell's chicken noodle soup, with too much water, all of them, no exception. Kusturica has to be the greatest living film director & the greatest director in at least 50 years. One would have to go back to Renoir & Rules of the Game to find a film with the energy & brilliance of Black Cat White Cat. Bravo, Kusturica. BRAVO!!!

With the chaos that engulfed the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, many people probably would have guessed that comedies could never come out of there. "Crna macka, beli macor" (called "Black Cat, White Cat" in English) would disprove that completely! After hustler Matko Destanov's (Bajram Severdzan) business fails, he agrees with gangster Dadan Karambolo (Srdan Todorovic) to marry his son off to Karambolo's daughter. But the two youngsters aren't quite ready to be married off just yet, and they'll do whatever they have to in order to fulfill their own wishes! "Black Cat, White Cat" is mainly interesting because we get to see a culture that we rarely see. Life in the Balkans doesn't look pretty, but this movie makes everything look funny. Emir Kusturica is truly one of a kind.

I didn't get much out of Emir Kusturica's film "Underground", and even less from this one. I'm at a loss to explain it's popularity, even among native Yugoslavians, as the characters in the film are not very appealing, in fact, they appear to work at being annoying. Scenes are disjointed and have almost a Keystone Kops kind of quality to them as if the characters, or at least the director, was on speed. The main villain character Dadan (Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic) spends a lot of time mugging and making faces and doesn't strike one as being a serious gangster, if that's what he's supposed to be. I really can't imagine what anyone finds worthwhile in the story, and as things spiral to a close, Dadan finds himself immersed in a latrine full of crap. Welcome to the Johnny Knoxville/Jackass school of film making - European edition. At least there were a handful of one or two second scenes in which a black cat and white cat appeared to lend some credence to the title of the picture. Oh, and geese, plenty of geese. All white, none black.