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Go West (2005/Water Bearer DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C     Extras: D     Film: C+

 

 

Ahmed Imamovic’s Go West (2005) is part of what has almost become a subcycle of Gay film where no only does a couple have to hide their gay sex/love affair in secret, but the additional outside threat exists that could get them killed instantly because of some kind of Fascist/Stalinist militant movement.  In this case, it is the Civil War in Bosnia in the early 1990s and asks if the couple can survive it.

 

In some cases, a bad filmmaker would focus on the sex and remain ignorant to the politics completely in full hack style, but we are sparred that.  However, the use of comedy and some good name actors (Rade Serbedzija, Jean Moreau; both of whom give goods performances) land up being distraction from what should be the crux of the film, resulting in a mixed result that never adds up.

 

That the feminine gay keeps wearing a wig to pretend to be an actual female works at first, but eventually ruins any other suspension of disbelief and this is a disappointment.

 

The letterboxed 1.85 X 1 image has some detail issues, but the brighter shots look better and enough so that this transfer is not a disaster, but an anamorphically enhanced edition would have been nice.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 sound is barely stereo, was a Dolby Digital release and the combination tells us this is a generation or so down.  There are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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