Cannes’ Critics Week-Bound Movie ‘Lost Country’ Boarded by Memento International
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Memento International has boarded Vladimir Perisic’s Serbian film “Lost Country” which will have its world premiere at Cannes’ Critics Week.
Set in Serbia in 1996, “Lost Country” unfolds during the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime. Story follows 15-year-old Stefan who has to confront his beloved mother, spokesperson and accomplice of the corrupted government that his friends are rising against.
The cast is lead by Serbian debuting actor Jovan Ginic and Jasna Djuricic, the actor of Oscar-nominated film “Quo Vadis Aida.” “Lost Country” was penned by Vladimir Perisic and celebrated French writer-director Alice Winocour, whose latest film “Revoir Paris” earned Virginie Efira the Cesar award for best actress. “Through this story, I wanted to explore the fragility of the human ability to admit reality, to accept it without reservations.
This ability often falls short, especially when it concerns our loved ones,” said Perisic. “Thus, the character of Stefan leads alone, in the heat of events, the hardest revolution of all: to accept the unacceptable and face the reality of the world he comes from, of his family.
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