Les corneilles

"Crows" are largely forgotten 'black wave' movie mostly because of its lack of proper domestic distribution, but it had more than an enviable theatrical run abroad - the movie was screened at eleven film festivals across the world. It is a pretty depressing flick when you look at its story, since the vanishing world that "Crows" live in has everything but disappeared today, and lives in other form. The main character, Djuka, is an aging boxer who does some crime activities in order to make his ends meet, since his club has no money for the roof alone. His mischievous mother wants to visit Russia, without knowing any of his son's sources of income. Djuka teams up with his cousin and two ballerinas he met by accident, and the crew roams around suburbia together with their "employer" Violeta, a woman who organizes their thefts and robberies. The characters' giggling refers to the title birds and the sounds these small vultures make. The funny music score fits nice into the whole story. However, the direction is both amazingly good and bad at the various points, but the viewer will not be disappointed in overall.