When I Grow Up, I’ll Be Kangaroo is a romantic comedy that comprises three parallel stories placed in urban Belgrade. The first story takes place in a dilapidated cinema in a suburb, where “MC daddy” Braca (Sergej Trifunovic) is unsuccessfully trying to “pull” a model called Iris (Marija Karan). The second story takes place in a betting shop, filled with all sorts of losers, where two friends, Somi (Boris Milivojevic) and Duje ( Nikola Vujovic), are expecting “to hit a meal ticket” through the victory of a team in which their school friend Kangaroo (Nikola Djuricko) is the goal keeper. In a way the third story sums up the sublime futile existence of youngsters in this region. It describes two characters on the top of a skyscraper, Avaks (Lazar Strugar) and Hibrid (Miodrag Fisekovic) champion ‘layabouts’, and in company with of a coordinative character, Sumpor (Gordan Kicic), expecting something to pull them out of the languor, even if this would be the appearance of a “flying saucer”.
Borislav Andjelic FIPRESCI 2004 |