Serbia: The Land With A Perfect Smile
Who would have thought it: You can tell a Serb by their smile. While a smiling Serb isn’t necessarily the World’s most familiar image of the region, maybe it’s time to rewrite the book of cultural clichés.
One thing was staring me in the face when I recently visited Belgrade – the jaw-dropping increase in facial furniture being worn by Belgrade’s beautiful young things. It seemed like every third person was proudly sporting a dental brace. Honestly, I have never seen so much mouth metal outside of Los Angeles.
Indeed, Serbia reminded me more of the image-conscious USA, thanks to the embarrassing wealth of good dental work filling faces in Belgrade’s bars and restaurants. Clearly, this is something of a trend.
The Box by Andrijana Stojković : A Serbian Film Review
The Box is the tragicomic urban tale of three young men chasing their dreams while trapped under the yoke of UN sanctions in early nineties Belgrade. With the onset of isolation, the film shows Belgrade in a moment of transition between everyday normality and the abnormal conditions about to be imposed on it.
It is 1992 and governments are recalling their embassies in the face of the coming storm, leaving the packing to our three protagonists, who work for a removals business that specialises in moving diplomats. This should be good for them as they box the lives of the diplomatic corps, but they live in a country that is being cut off.
Rather than be crushed by this, these young men carry on their own lives until they are moved to find new outlets for their dreams, showing comical resourcefulness to break out of their isolation.
Serbia’s Crown Prince Hopes To Win Back The Throne
Serbia’s global image would improve, the political landscape would be cleaned up, and much-needed cash would be safe in the country’s coffers if Serbia would return a Karadjordjevic king to the throne. That is the opinion of Crown Prince Alexander II, as told to W!LD RooSTeR during an interview at Belgrade’s Royal Palace.
“I think that parliamentary monarchy is a great solution for Serbia,’ declared Crown Prince Alexander, who publicly favours a system of parliamentary monarchy. “The Prime Minister and his cabinet, along with the parliament, elected by the people in free and fair elections, would run the country. I should say that the politicians would be the same. You can’t have a new bunch of politicians, just pick them up from some village.
Adulterers by Vida Ognjenović : A Book Review
Adulterers is not all that might be implied by the book’s title. The break up of a marriage is merely the starting point from which an emotional process of exploration can begin within this award-winning novel from leading Serbian dramatist, author and diplomat Vida Ognjenović.
Indeed, the infidelity that kick starts this soul-searching confessional is of significantly less importance than the intense self-examination and subsequent discovery that it prompts in the book’s narrator. Adulterers is released as part of the much-admired Serbian Prose in Translation series from Serbia’s Geopoetika publishing house.
