Before the Rain

if you don't love it, watch it again. Deep messages, great filmmaking, unique circular approach that ties the structure, story, and characters together in a true masterpiece.

76

Interesting enough, without ever straying into the "very good" arena. The circularity was a bit overdone, and it often threatened to lapse into cliche, but had enough nice directorial touches and subtlety to keep the attention.

Time never dies. The circle is never round.

The best movie from Republic of Macedonia, and the hole Balkan.

More Balkan stories of sorrow... How tense it can become from one day to another, from neighbor to enemy. Eyes red with vengeance and hate. A beautiful story by Manchevski and wonderful music and cast. Beautiful and sad.

Three acts of greatness. The third is the strongest.

Maybe it's a genial movie, but I just fell asleep on it. I watched it with a friend, and she passed away even earlier, so it's not just me...

butunuyle yapmacik, cok zorlama, inandiriciliktan uzak bir film. hic hoslasmadigim suni bir sinema dili. puanim kurgusunun nefasetine. o da olmasa daha az ederdi.

I have seen it long time ago, but I remember strong story and fascinating music...

I saw Before the Rain for the third time last night, and once again I admired everything about the film, from its time-bending 3-act structure, to its moral compass, to its sense of foreboding and its visual sensibility, which is unique unto itself but that owes something to Sergio Leone. This is the wilder west, where a man would rather kill his own than lay down the fight.

Hate breeds hate. There is a tempest before the rain. There had been a war in the last 10 years in the midst of Europe, the cradle of civilization that people barely recognized or cared.

makedonya, kilise, rahip, sessizlik yemini, siginmak, müslüman-hristyan, arnavut-makedon, ask, londra, pulitzer ödüllü fotografci, iki afam arasinda kadin, restoran, yuguslavya ic savas, savas karsiti (mandalinalar) (Üc farkli hikaye anlatiyor. Birinci hikayede makedonyada bir kiliseye siginan ve genc bir rahip tarafindan saklanan bir arnavut kizini, ikinci hikayede londrada ajansta calisan bir kadin ve bir fotografciyi ücüncü hikayede fotografcinin makedonyaya dönüsün) Araba sahnesi gereksiz...

Decent but occasionally heavy-handed anti-war film. The gimmicks are sometimes annoying: the interconnected stories, the circular timeline, the repeated motifs. Some of it is interesting, but it tends to come off as contrived. I thought the first story was by far the best and most profoundly moving. The second section just seems out of place and pointless. Things pick up a little with the third thread, but I didn't like the character much and by that point the gimmickiness was getting to me.

random acts of violence marking the yugoslav wars splatter over three connected and very contrived mini-dramas. there are a large number of ridiculous romances, the music confuses evocation with cheap exoticism, and the endless use of circularity and repitition smacks of gimmickry rather than artistry. i suspect the overrating of this film is due to it being, in more than one way, the cinematic inauguration of the republic of macedonia.

An interesting film that explores the circular nature of violence.While I found the issues this film deals with compelling the way it was portrayed on screen was not.Parts of this film dragged on a little to long.While the cinematography was breathtaking I felt at time they were more concerned with the shot then the emotion of the scene.In the end this was a worthwhile film to watch that explores complex issues and get's us thinking about the way war and hatred effect and changes us.

"What it loses in novelty and subtlety it makes up for in its earnest depiction of love and individual human decency in the face of societal cruelty." - Jeremiah Kipp

War! huh-yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothin' Say it again y'all