Black Cat, White Cat

Two years after he swore off filmmaking in the wake of bitter controversy surrounding his 1996 masterpiece UNDERGROUND, Bosnian-born director Emir Kusturica has, happily, changed his mind. For his welcome return, Kusturica reunites with screenwriter Gordan Mihic, and together they revisit the gypsy-world of their picaresque 1991 epic, TIME OF THE GYPSIES. In the small Yugoslavian town of Surduk on the banks of the Danube, ne'er-do-well Matko Destanov (Bajram Severdzan) hatches a crazy plan to steal an entire trainload of petrol, and turns to Dadan (Srdan Todorovic) for help. Bad move: Dadan is a sleazy, gold-plated gangster and alleged war criminal who's only looking...