OUR EVERYDAY LIFE

OUR EVERYDAY LIFE (NAŠA SVAKODNEVNA PRIČA), 2015

Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia |DCP, Color, 89’| Bosnian

Director:Ines Tanović

Cast: Jasna Beri, Enis Bešlagić, Goran Bogdan

Our Everyday Life, Bosnia Herzegovina’s entry for the Oscar’s this year, is a successful character-based drama. It portrays the struggle of a middle-class Bosnian family against various ordinary problems such as unemployment, immigration and sickness. Despite the fact that he is unhappy with the way his children are leading their lives, Mohammed, a retired factory manager in his 60s, constantly rants at his friends about them instead of talking to his children. Meanwhile, Marija, the optimistic mother who believes everything will be fine, habitually acts as mediator between her husband and children. Ines Tanović’s finely finished scenario and montage shines a mirror to the generation who are in their 30s and 40s and who lost their youth to the war and their feeling of being stuck alongside the lost conscience of the country.