The Thirst of a Stone Sea (12)
Director: Vladimir Perovic, 2007, Montenegro/Serbia, 79min
Venue: Barbican Centre Screen 3
Part of A Conversation in Europe at LIDF with the Barbican.
Cuce, Montenegro – a remote mountain region where the 17th century meets the 21st.
A goatherd mourns the world’s lack of heroes, a man builds a road through the rocky soil with his bare hands, a woman lives in a cave for love, and a charcoal-maker surveys the world of politics.
This beautifully shot meditation on life and living reveals a land on the margins of Europe, caught between the old and the new, full of history and defined by stories. Or possibly fairy tales.
TICKETS
£6.50 from Barbican box office
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