Synopsis
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
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Cast
- Stephen DillaneMichael Henderson
- Woody HarrelsonFlynn
- Marisa TomeiNina
- Goran VisnjicRisto Bavić
- Emira NuševićEmira
- Kerry FoxJane Carson
- James NesbittGregg
- Emily LloydAnnie McGee
- Igor DžambazovJacket
- Gordana GadžićMrs. Savić
Recommandations
- 100
Film Threat
The result is crisp, brutal and utterly inspirational. - 88
ReelViews
And, while there's nothing revolutionary or extraordinary about the dramatic narrative, the subtext gives Winterbottom's movie its force. - 80
Salon
Winterbottom's film is openly a polemic. Messy and visceral, with an articulate, pointed anger that's recognizably British, Welcome to Sarajevo hits with an impact that's not diminished by the fact that Sarajevo's uneasy peace has held. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The result is startling and repellent -- a challenge to filmgoers accustomed to fake gunfire, fake wounds and cosmeticized death. - 75
San Francisco Examiner
The movie is well made by director Michael Winterbottom ("Jude"), with a minimum of overdramatics. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
In keeping with this background, the movie boldly incorporates actual newsreel footage - with authentic images of human suffering, some of them seen in TV reports on the war - into its conventionally scripted and acted story. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Tomei looks far too fresh-scrubbed to be anywhere near a bloody, messy hell like this, but the rest of the cast is grimly realistic, particularly Harrelson, who manages to bring some goofball credibility to what is essentially a very small role. - 60
The New York Times
Yet this film, for all its apparent immediacy, winds up less affecting than a more poetic or roundabout approach might be.
