Landscape With A Woman

Inspired throughout by naive-style painting, this is an intensely beautiful portrait of the artist as a natural-born agitator. The artist in question is a newly arrived forester in a remote Bosnian community; paintings line his cabin walls, painting filters all he sees, a naked woman or a naked tree. But for this village, obsessed with its own survival, where people must buy their place in nature, where “all the bulls but one have been castrated,” the combination of aesthetic aloofness and artless masculinity in a government functionary is a multi-faceted threat. —San Francisco International Film Festival