From my favorite movies..

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I saw Stefan Arsenijevic short movies,and I really liked them all,he seemed like a extraordinary talented director,and I couldn't wait to see his new movie -Love and other crimes-. Bur right from beginning,I was feeling embarrassed cause I'm sitting and watching that on a big screen. These are the reasons:-Screenplay is really lame,situations that are happening are not understandable(especially that thing with song-b e s a m e m u c h o--disaster).And biggest mistake is -screenplay looks like it should point to some real problems in Belgrade,and it's completely untrue.I mean,it looks like it refers to reality and it's not.Loan sharks and crimes like that in 2008?! It's like when Americans make movie about war in Bosnia... Characters are insufficiently elaborated ,their relationships are pathetic and shallow,and not logical.Like he was shooting without a script,and solved problems by adding characters and dialogs just like that. I cannot say anything about actors,they are all good,Stefan also made a lot of good camera cadres of New Belgrade and also cadres are generally beautiful,but whole movie is not good,I really ask myself-WHAT happened to Serbian movie,we had really good screenplays in our past,why are intelligent people like Stefan exploiting these subjects in so shallow and stupid way?I would not go to see his next movie

I don't know where to start from. Story and screenplay for example: it is as if writers read a book in psychology, especially the part which contains examples of why are people getting depressed, and then put it all together in one pathetic script. There are some questions I wanted to ask: Why does a 14-year old girl go to the top of the building twice a day to commit suicide? Is the solution for suicide attempt singing "Besa me mucho" and eating two dozens of oranges a day? Who has ever got a girl by talking of how he was masturbating watching her when they were younger? I don't know much about life of petty criminals in Serbia, but do they really kill each others pets when they don't get their 30-40 Euros of extortion money per month from local pancake shop? Why does everybody in this film sing "Besa me mucho" for so many times? Pretty likable song became very boring one. Why does everybody have to be so unhappy? They've all failed in every aspect of their lifes: family, business, love, parenthood... Some characters are just thrown in to tell their pathetic stories and prolong film for almost an hour. No sign of happiness in this one. My expectations were big but bad script and some poor performances by some good Serbian actors (the script was obviously not the inspiring one) disappointed me. In the end you don't really care about who lives or who dies (although you know it after 5 minutes). Only good thing about this waste of time are filming locations. If you want to watch good Serbian film from the last decade, watch "The Trap".

As someone else (reviewer) stated here too, after "Klopka" comes this gem of Serbian cinema. A slow moving love drama, that's not really trying to blend in.While you might think or expect conventional love drama fare, you will be treated to somewhat more complex (dare I say even more philosophical)! As stated in the summary line it won't be to anyone's taste, especially if you're more in the blockbuster area, then this won't be your cup of tea. Well I liked it and you will too, if you let yourself into the characters and don't mind one song (Besame...) being repeated a few times in the movie ...

You know you watched a really good film, when the credits end, and you caught yourself still sitting and thinking about the movie and all the messages entangled into it. I know it happened to me after Watching "Love and Other Crimes". The all-too-familiar ambient of the New Belgrade, Socialist style buildings and the people living there become a stage where the whole action of the movie is happening. What you see is people caught in the web of the past decisions, now time long regretting them, and without any bright future on their horizon. Their lives are put into the scope through the actions of the main protagonist, Anica, and her last 24 hours before permanently leaving this dark and gloomy place. She exacts her own justice (or should I say revenge) to all the people who where or still are important to her. But, when the young boy from the hood, Stefan, admits that he's in love with her, everything is about to change… This movie is about two most important things: Love…and change. It goes without saying, one cannot exist without other. Without love, there is no reason to change. But without love for yourself, there is no need to change, and that is far more destructive way to look and be in this world. From the begging to the end, this film shows us that by turning to yourself you start to heal not just your own mind and soul, but you also start the same thing in the people around you. Kudos to Stefan and the whole crew of this wonderful movie!