Overview
Hilarious, brilliantly acted and also deeply moving, this turbulent farce toys with every cliché and stereotype!
Hilarious, brilliantly acted and also deeply moving, this turbulent farce toys with every cliché and stereotype!
The Parade starts with a meet-cute at gunpoint, when gangster Lemon (Nikola Kojo) rushes his beloved pitbull terrier to the local pet-clinic and demands prompt service from timid veterinarian Radmilo (Milos Samolo). The two part soon thereafter, but are fated to meet again, as every major character in this film is so inextricably linked to everybody else that one quickly assumes Belgrade to be a small hamlet and not a teeming metropolis. When Lemon’s fiancée Pearl (Hristina Popovic) demands that he use his influence and muscle to protect a gay pride parade that Radmilo’s activist boyfriend Mirko (Goran Jevtic) is organizing, the former soldier suddenly finds himself ostracized by his peers and must now recruit his former foes from Bosnia, the Kosovo and Croatia.
Director Dragojevic handles this comedy with a sure hand and complete avoidance of political correctness –going so far as to explaining the racial slurs of the separate nationalities and the homophobic one shared by all in the title! This involves brilliant touches (like revealing the latent homosexuality behind overbearing machismo); and he is also helped by a brilliant cast!
A sure must see!
