The Wounds

Chaos reigns in Serbian director Srdjan Dragojevic's high-octane look at two Belgrade juvenile delinquents coming of age during the turbulent years 1991-1996. The movie opens in '96, amidst rejoicing on the streets that American economic sanctions have been lifted. Teen pals Pinki (Dusan Pekic) and Kraut (Milan Maric) are trapped in their car by the bedlam, and Pinki recounts the story of their short, brutish lives. As 13-year-olds in a rundown housing project, Pinki, Kraut and geeky hanger-on Dijabola (Andreja Jovannovic) worship volatile Dickie (Dragan Bjelogrlic), a flashy black marketeer. As the ongoing civil war erodes middle-class standards of living (inflati...