Black Cat White Cat (1998) ****

Directed by Emir Kusturica. With Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini and Adnan Bekir. A surrealistic, flamboyant black comedy about crazy Serb Gypsies living on the Danube river. It's a full-blown attack on all accepted norms of propriety and decorum, frenetically paced, absolutely hilarious, wildly sensuous and totally wacky. It offers wild goose chases, shotgun weddings, runaway brides, double-crossing gangsters and non-stop Gypsy music. Kusturica has an uncanny ability to expose the most repulsive, vulgar and disgusting side of humanity, and then...transform it into the most sublime poetry.