"It's very difficult to make me sit and see this for two hours, it's so hard to watch, so you can imagine living it for years, as many of our cast did," she told reporters at a press screening in Hollywood on Thursday.
"We want people to feel what it is like to live in war, and we also want to people who watch this movie to pray that ... something will stop this," she added.
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The embargo is still in effect but Jeff Well's comments mirror my exact thoughts about the film:
"I absolutely respect and admire In The Land of Blood and Honey as well as her efforts to make it as first-rate as possible. This is a very tight and well-executed drama -- no shovelling, no exaggeration, no sensationalism. Just straight and true and real.
Set within the Serb-Muslim-Croat conflict of the early to mid '90s, ITLOBAH isn't a disparate-lovers story as much as a portrait of the very fine lines between a relationship that is lust one minute, safety and security the next, and always with a current of sadism and sadomasochism. The basic logline -- "a Bosnian woman (Zana Marjanovic) submits to the tender passions of her Serbian captor (Goran Kostic)" -- isn't the half of it."
