The Land Within

After seeing this movie at a festival, I've spent a long moment thinking about the incredible quality of the dramatic structure of the movie. The land within faces a topic we barely know our days, I mean war and it's mid-term consequences on our destinies. There is something very similar to Jarmusch's "Permanent vacation" in the construction of the plot. A kind of loser goes back to his birth place and hangs out with his cousins. The difference lies in the nature of the trip. War doesn't leave any place for emptiness, no place for humour neither, on the contrary it feeds bodies and further generations with new narratives. You cannot treat such topic without mastering the narrative science and I guess this has been a complete performance. I am looking forward to see this movie again.