SOLEIL DE PLOMB

Two young people in love, one Serbian, one Croatian, in 1991. Tension between the families, a forbidden passion. In 2001, a young woman and her mother hire a handyman. Desire and temptation, despite the scars left by the death of the eldest brother. And, in 2011, a young man returns home. His friends want to throw a party, but he only wants to reconnect with the lover he abandoned when she was pregnant. She refuses to forgive him. In this film spanning three decades, Dalibor Matanic overlays three love stories against the backdrop of the post-Yugoslav Balkan wars. Depicting violent fights, the scars of war, and potential rebirth in the wake of those terrible events, the Croatian filmmaker explores the devastating consequences of tragedy through the burning, agonizing, ill-fated passions of his different protagonists, and through the ruins of a Balkan village, a place to which the characters constantly return. Linking the different stories, actors Tihana Lozavic and Goran Markovic play the three damned couples, making each of them nuanced, unique and heartbreaking