I'm a big fan of Kusturica's work. He his one of the smartest and unexpected filmmakers ever. Of course you have to understand, enjoy and "get in to" his way of telling a story: all the over the top visuals, the kitsch environment and characters, the unusual soundtracks, the "controlled bad taste"; the subtle, amazing details and twists. That is Kusturica! And Black Cat White Cat delivers like no other. The PitBull Terrier song inside the limousine, the nail in the board scene, the toilet paper/goose climax are just outstanding, clever and ingenious ... Kusturica's at his best. Character development ans plot are excellent, delivering balance inside all the madness and bizarre ( a pig eating an Volkswagen Beatle throughout the film is priceless ), always maintaining pace and plot coherence. This is not easy to achieve and Kusturica is the master in pulling it of, using nothing but skill, art, irony, intelligence and... music. Music sets the pace of the film, delivers ups and downs with nothing but chord changes... music is so important in Black Cat White Cat. Please watch this movie. But watch it with an open mind and a joyful heart. If you do so, you are in for a ride of a lifetime!

Let me tell you before I review that I don't understand the movie's language but still loved it. I might/ should have missed lots of the language/regional stuffs present in the movie since I'm not Serbian.Emir Kusturica takes the imagination to the brink. He really did understand the life of gypsies for he has taken the movie so well. The music is cool to me (my two favorite Danube songs - Blue and Waves). The screenplay is comically written that scripts love at teens, miseries at middle age and alcoholism at old-age with two cats. Srdjan Todorovic is a superb actor (He makes me laugh every-time I see 'm on screen in this movie -- "Pitbull... Terrier") and his slapstick were too good. Few issues (just 'remote'-st ones) : The movie story doesn't make sense and movie is too much chaotic and not everyone understands the movie.

It's one of those films where just about every second provides something of entertainment, particularly something with a degree of light or dark humour. I laughed my head off when all those different things took place during the wedding, especially with the toilet-tumble later in the film; plus every time the focus switched to animal life, you could see a certain pig eating a Trabant!!!! That's a car with a body made almost entirely of cardboard, and a pig doesn't care what it eats. Just make it chewable.The Kusturica-Bregovic duo is spot-on for a person who has a taste of either films, music or both.10 out of 10. Magnificent.

There are elements of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew' in this piece which are cleverly buried beneath the rollicking adventures of this small-time low-life society. Absolutely, these cats outdo the Shakespeare comedy.Everyone is out to use and abuse everybody else and we learn to accept that as Real Life as it was meant to be. The young lovers escape their slavery to family obligations to a happy ending and the shrew also finds true happiness in the least likely place. We get a morality play ending without feeling cheated in the least.There seem to be ethnic subtexts here which would be lost on a non-local audience - such as the Greek name of the local gangster family, the black comedy treatment of the murder of a corrupt guard on the border and the various religious or atheist affiliations. The sex urge seems to be everywhere as are cultural straight-jackets to keep it in check.My favourite scene is when the Matko character is given an enamel mug of the petrol that they've just bought for next to nix from a passing Russian barge with the object of assessing its quality by taste. He spits it out in disgust BECAUSE IT'S WATER! Priceless!