Déjà vu

Now I'm not saying this is a masterpiece, but it is nonetheless a very interesting movie. It is definitely worth seeing, if you get a chance.

The storyline follows the life of a child whose posh family disintegrated following the arrival of communists in Belgrade, Serbia.

The loss of his family, societal status and dignity and the perceived lack of morals in the communist society drives him further and further away from the mainstream and into loneliness, depression and murderous obsession.

The movie maybe tries a little too hard to represent the post-war communist society as a parade of ignorant, unsophisticated and violent peasants, freshly arrived from the mountains and villages but already ruling every aspect of the new society.

The film is really about violence, and about painful changes in society that war and violent revolutions bring.

This movie is a Yugoslav hidden gem. In my opinion, definitely in top 3 Yugoslav movies. The acting of Mustafa Nadarevic is superior, but other actors did a great job as well.

This movie reminded me of Hitchcock's movies, except that this movie is even better. I would like to add that the director Goran Markovic not only directed this movie but also wrote the story, so I have a huge respect and admiration for this man.

It covers interesting topics such as trauma from the events that happened in protagonist's youth- from communists bumping into his family's apartment, taking it over and dividing it in half to trauma from his parent's fighting and divorce, etc. When a new woman arrives to his workplace and he becomes intimate with her, the protagonist starts experiencing deja vu's often and over time loses his sanity which is going to lead to fatal consequences.

"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!

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

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!