Vec vidjeno

Once a promising concert pianist, slaphead Mihailo (Mustafa Nadarevic) teaches music at a university, where he falls for pretty fashion expert Olgica (Anica Dobra), who uses men as her playthings. Starting a sexual relationship with Mihailo, Olgica tries to convince him to perform in a televised stage show that she is producing, which she hopes will make her famous and enable her to move out of the small apartment that she shares with her alcoholic father and younger brother. However, Mihailo begins to lose his marbles when events start to mirror his troubled childhood, and after Olgica ditches him for a karate instructor, the pianist is pushed over the edge and becomes homicidal.

There's not really much in the way of horror in Reflections, the majority of the film focussing on Mihail's deteriorating mental state, flashbacks to his formative years, and Olgica's ruthless manipulation of men, but it still held my attention thanks to decent performances and an intriguing storyline. The film eventually delivers some suspense and nasty violence in the final act, when Mihailo has his murderous meltdown, the insane ivory tickler pinning Olgica's father to a door with a knife, stalking her brother, and slicing the karate dude with a sabre (the man's almost severed hand flapping around, hanging by a strip of flesh). Olgica pays for her scheming ways when Mihailo throttles her as she is showering (even in communist Yugoslavia, they understand the importance of a gratuitous shower scene!).

5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

"Vec vidjeno" is the greatest masterpiece of all times. Goran Markovic is one of the greatest directors. This film features excellent acting of Mustafa Nadarevic and Anica Dobra, charming and touching music, sounding in the film. The music creates this mysterious atmosphere which charming spectators. Crossing of today's events and past events made in a very appropriate way. And it proves the Markovic' skill. Look at the Anica Dobra and her appearance and you will realize that she ideally matches the film character! What about Mustafa Nadarevic? He matches even more! Look at furnishings of past events! How it corresponds to reality! The greatest work of the great director and actors!

In my opinion, "Vec vidjeno" is the best movie of Goran Markovic (and all of them are great), one of the best Serbian directors.

It's done in cognizable Markovic's way. The story is great (it is by Markovic, also), acting of Mustafa Nadarevic is superb, Zoran Smijanovic's music is excellent as everything else in this movie.

It is a horror movie, which is not a typical Yugoslav genre, [besides "Davitelj protiv davitelja" (which is more like comedy) and "Leptirica" I can't think of another], but it is done in a way that Hitchcock would envy.

If any film deserves the Oscar then this is the one!

Vec vidjeno is the gem in Goran Markovic`s opus. Markovic is in my opinion the best Yugoslav director of all time, and his movies in a satirical way perfectly portrayed society and social distorsions in Yugoslavia at the end of 70`s and up to the mid 80`s. Vec vidjeno (or also known as Deja Vu), is however looking on the other side of life, and horror, with the unavoidable elements of society`s flaws, raging from before World war II, up to mid 70`s where the plot is set. This is the most complete, griping and artistic Yugoslav movie that takes you by surprise and stares right in your face up to the very end

considering rest of markovic's work, this movie takes low position on list of his movies, for someone else it may be average, but not for goran markovic. as we are used to negative associations for yugoslav communist authority in markovic's movies, same thing is presented in 'vec vidjeno'. movie is about the man who is piano teacher who wasted his exceptional talent, primarily because of his childhood traumas which effected the rest of his life to the point of absolute mental decay. he associates nowadays reality with scenes from his childhood (explanes movie title)and general atmosphere is very melancholic and heavy, but not strong or effective enough and that's the key problem