Montenegro

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Montenegro

R,

1981,

1h 36m,

Comedy

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86%

14 Reviews

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77%

500+ Ratings

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86%

Tomatometer

14 Reviews

77%

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500+ Ratings

A listless and unhappy American housewife in Sweden, Marilyn (Susan Anspach) becomes unsatisfied with her life and goes off the deep end, behaving erratically around her husband (Erland Josephson) and children. Accompanying her husband on a business trip, Marilyn misses her plane and meets a group of Yugoslavian migrants. They take her to Zanzi Bar, their nightclub of uninhibited love, and Marilyn has an affair with Montenegro (Svetozar Cvetkovic), a younger man.

Bruce McCabe

Boston Globe

Apr 28, 2018

A virtuoso demonstration of cinematic facility which adroitly masquerades as a witty, pungent evocation of a woman's fantasy life.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 23, 2004

4/4

There can be something absolutely liberating about a movie that makes up its rules as it goes along.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Aug 30, 2004

1.5/5

A halfheartedly Surreal comedy filled with forced high spirits, unconvincing lunacies and failed sight gags.

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Octavi Marti

El Pais (Spain)

Feb 10, 2020

Makavejev's trajectory tries too hard to be modern and yet, it never manages to be in tune with the spirit of the era. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Karen Krebsbach

Sojourner

Aug 16, 2019

Cleverly edited, with breaks of raw humor often short of slapstick, the film carefully avoids the macabre and the inane, treading on safe ground. [Full review in Spanish]

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Adam Lippe

Examiner.com

Sep 8, 2012

The first half of Montenegro seems to be a parody of Ingmar Bergman films, where characters wallow instead of doing anything about their problems. It's no accident that director Dusan Makajevev cast Bergman-regular Erland Josephson as the miserly husband.

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Synopsis

A listless and unhappy American housewife in Sweden, Marilyn (Susan Anspach) becomes unsatisfied with her life and goes off the deep end, behaving erratically around her husband (Erland Josephson) and children. Accompanying her husband on a business trip, Marilyn misses her plane and meets a group of Yugoslavian migrants. They take her to Zanzi Bar, their nightclub of uninhibited love, and Marilyn has an affair with Montenegro (Svetozar Cvetkovic), a younger man.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Producer: Christer Abrahamsen, Bo Jonsson, George Zecevic
Screenwriter: Dusan Makavejev, Branko Vucicevic
Distributor: Criterion Collection, Atlantic Releasing Corp.
Production Co: Europa Film, Viking Film
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 18, 1981, Original
Runtime: 1h 36m

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