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"Fuse" - Movie Night Selection for March 12


The once-a-month foreign film series continues on March 12 at 7:30 PM with "Fuse" (2004) from Bosnia. Jo's recommendation of the Czech film "Kolya" for Feb. 12 proved quite popular, so I'm going with Jo's advice again in March.

This is one of only two Bosnian films that I've seen, and both of them were in some way related to the war in Bosnia that took place in the 1990s. The other one ("No Man's Land") was black humor at its blackest, whereas "Fuse" is much lighter but still includes some biting satire. "Fuse" is not a war movie. It's set in the years after the war when President Bill Clinton is using a visit to a small Bosnian town in the war zone to showcase the success of the West's intervention in the war. Here's the way that Neflix describes the action ...

In the days leading up to a postwar visit from President Bill Clinton, the denizens of a Bosnian town try desperately to make it look as if everything's fine, despite the fact that the community is teeming with graft. While a local gangster (Senad Basic) is forced to pretend his cathouse is a cultural center, the unhinged former police chief (Bogdan Diklic) is hatching a plan to avenge his son's death by abducting Clinton.