Third half

it is not easy to understand this film. because , more than a Makedonian story it is a confession from Balkans contemporary history, with deep roots, bitter at whole. at first sigh , it could be discovered as a nationalist film. or only a love story in war period. a film about soccer, about bad and good people, about abuses and about moral victories. in fact is only a subject for reflection. about past and about future. about myths and about reality. about a slice of world who has the force and courage and wise to be itself, again and again. it is a good movie. it is a beautiful one. but, more important, behind the acting, dialogs, images and script itself, it is a way to remember the pain of a land, the experience of people. that fact does " Treto poluvreme" real special. because it is a film of different languages and the same lives. so, see it ! see it without the desire to judge. only with the hope to understand.

As it is obvious there are too many languages used for almost all actors. In my opinion it is very hard to distinguish for foreigners between Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Jutish-Latino... That is the reason that I propose when translating the title for different languages to be written using different font shape and if possible different color. This will enhance full understanding of the story, especially taking into account that some actors speak several languages. Doing so it will clarify the main message (according to my understanding) sent to us by the author: Love can find its way in any circumstances, and it is always stronger than hate.

The Actors Performance of the leading actors are one of the weakest links in the film. Ivanovska has serious problems in portraying the higher class role that she is assign to here. Kocev sounds more gentlemen-like than her. Ivanovska appearance is attractive but her acting skill are quite low making the love story not to be so good. Kocev compared to Ivanovska looks like a much better actor but he is not great also. However the rest of the cast is much better than the leading couple. Serbedzija is great also the couch Sammel other actors with memorable performance are Apostolski (the club president) and the Bulgarian officer.

The Storyline Is well written does a good job of incorporating many different and parallel story lines and has multiple levels. Give a nice impressions of the "spirit of the time". It is also interesting that all characters speak their native language instead of some artificial "common language" aka English what gives more realism to the film.

The Camera and Photography are good the camera functions very well in dynamic and static mode give nice aspect of the dynamic football game and more static narrative. The photography is bright and positive dispute the sometimes dark narrative. You can fell the warmth of the land and southern summer sun.

The Music and the Sound Are maybe weakest links of film along with the acting of Ivanovska. The music consist of traditional song singed by the protagonists the rest of the music is standard issue Hollywood music clips. The sound is also a bite problematic some of the comments by the football players are hard to hear due to the high background noise.

The Director did a well job in organized this a bite complicated film and hard to tell story. Although he lack sometimes the creativity and goes into well known clichés.

No matter of the review that i'll write for all the viewers of the movie i think that if you are not Macedonian you won't get the point of this movie.The movie have strong behind and a message full of anger and revenge of what they where doing to Macedonia in the past.By revenge i mean that the director want the viewers to see how humiliating was the past for our people and how they apart our land and whit those a lot of families where separated,a lot of love stories where broken,a lot of dreams where gone.That's why i think this movie is something that describe us like a nation a history of people that survived this and now are only memories left for tell. About the actors i think that Sasko did well his role,but Karerina was week in some parts,i guess that's because this was her first movie.The songs in the movie are also very touchable part, and i think that there is no Macedonian who watched the movie and not get thrill all over her/his body.I recommend the movie for all, for me was great.

p.s Sorry if i have some grammar mistakes.

This movie is one of the best outstanding Macedonian movies ever made in the history of Macedonian cinematography.

The Third Half is filled with lots of painful truths assembled in a beautiful love story continued with soccer events that wake up the spirit inside you. It's amazing that this movie so easily creates the cheering effect and you are cheering all the way.

While watching the movie i smiled so good, I was laughing out loud at certain extremely funny moments and then I cried. After crying I laughed again, I laughed so sweet I loved the taste of those tears. In the end I cried smiling. This movie creates such strong emotional waves that you are not able to resist the urge to go along with them.

We were organized to watch the movie in the USA embassy and I would like to thank all the guys who made this happen.

Amazing work of art! Watch it and you will absolutely love it!