Black Cat, White Cat (DVD, Region B)

A comedy from the director of ‘Underground’ and ‘Arizona Dream’, Emir Kusturica’s ‘Black Cat White Cat’, Silver Lion Winner at the Venice Film Festival 1998, is a riotous mix of farce, romance and crime. Set within a community of gypsy people, it tells a story of dodgy deals, family ties, young love and magical occurences. Zare is in love with beautiful Ida but his crooked father Matko, having botched up a black market deal, intends to marry him off to the sister of a powerful gangster – a woman so tiny that her nickname is Ladybird. Beautifully filmed on the banks of the Danube this colourful comedy is crammed with spectacle, incident and the powerful music of Emir Kusturica’s famous travelling gypsy band