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As a journalist familiar with Yugoslavia and the tragedies of its breakway states, I was prepared to despise this movie about foreign journalists working during the siege of Sarajevo. I conception, here goes Hollywood exploiting an abomination of the 20th Century. What I saw, in fact, humbled me and moved me to many tears. Director Michael Winterbottom takes an unflinching, docudrama near, integrating sincere news footage of atrocities with his no frills production. There is no exploitation of suffering here. Winterbottom has an unabashed agenda: to shock, voice, educate and remark. It is hardly entertainment. The result, devoid of sentimentality, glamour and a neatly-packaged denoument, is refreshingly un-Hollywood. The characters played by Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei in a dinky role, Kerry Fox, Stephen Dillane and the graceful Croatian actor Goran Visnjic, inquire dilemmas journalists habitually face in war zones or not: how to remain honest, whether compassion is appropriate and whether or not to become eager with a tale. The journalists, fragment of a profession where bravado, gallow humour and stamina for drink and adrenalin go with the territory, bring these characteristics to the fore in their uncertain bunker, Sarajevo’s harmful Holiday Inn. The film is based partly on the good myth of Michael Henderson’s (played by Dillane) experience in war-torn Bosnia. Henderson, then others, spoiled the line of objectivity in their promise to support some of the traumatised children of the bombarded city. There are no easy answers in war. I read … how the film moved a physician to benefit in Bosnia and has been faded to educate students in unique history. Who needs an Oscar with true life affirmations such as these?
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In the spring of 1992, news correspondents from around the world descended upon Bosnia to document the most horrific conflict Europe had seen since World War II. WELCOME TO SARAJEVO is the tale of those correspondents and the surreal world they entered when they checked into their rooms at the Holiday Inn (which, as fate would have it, was located upright on the obnoxious boulevard known as Sniper Alley; they couldn’t have found a better residence to concept the action if they tried) .
One of those correspondents, Michael Henderson (Stephen Dillane), has very diminutive patience with colleagues like Jordan Flynn (Woody Harrelson) who always acquire ways of enchanting themselves in the stories they’re covering. “We’re not here to relieve - we’re here to describe,” he says. But Henderson finds it increasingly difficult to remain peaceful from the carnage around him, especially when Serb artillery and Serb snipers commence targeting Sarajevo’s children. Frustrated by networks (who would rather lead with stories about the Duchess of York’s marital problems) and world leaders (who condemn the killing while allowing it to continue), Henderson finally decides to act; if he can’t finish the war, then he can at least put the life of a child.
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WELCOME TO SARAJEVO is based on “Natasha’s Yarn,” the 1993 myth of ITN correspondent Michael Nicholson. Director Michael Winterbottom has fashioned a grand film by taking the events in Nicholson’s book and interweaving them with steady footage of the siege of Sarajevo. And he’s couldn’t have assembled a better cast; Stephen Dillaine and Woody Harrelson give the performances of their careers (thus far) as Henderson and Flynn, and they’re ably supported by Kerry Fox, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nusevic, and a charismatic, pre-ER Goran Visnjic (who comes terminate to walking away with the movie) .
When WELCOME TO SARAJEVO was released on VHS, one of the Amazon.com reviewers took extinct President Clinton to task for his “lies” about Bosnia, but he neglected to mention that most of the events depicted in this film (Bosnia’s descent into war, the breadline massacre, the establishment of Serb-operated concentration camps in Omarska and Trnopolje) took location when George H.W. Bush was in the White House. Clearly there’s blame enough to go around. Bosnia wasn’t unprejudiced failed by the U.S., Britain, France, and the U.N.; Bosnia was failed by the world. And the world should be ashamed.
As for WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, it’s a shimmering and unforgettable portrait of one of the most lunatic periods in modern history. Don’t miss it.
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