It is profoundly worrying and dispiriting to see such levels of cinematic illiteracy among the people entrusted with judging what the adult British public may or may not see.ДЄ Serbian Film centres on Milos, a retired porn star with a wife and son, who struggles to make ends meet.

It is because the British censors can only see cinema as entertainment that their understanding of A Serbian Film remained shockingly literal, and that they misconstrued the film as a violent spectacle, instead of seeing it for the denunciation of violence that it very clearly is. The issues surrounding the censorship of the film have been discussed at length in our blog since FrightFest, but it is worth pointing out that the BBFCвЂ™s decision is symptomatic of a general reluctance among certain British institutions to consider film as art. The only opportunity to see it uncut was at an invitation-only screening in October, organised by the Raindance Festival to circumvent the BBFCвЂ™s ruling.

UK audiences will now be able to see the film, albeit in its censored form, in theatres this month. Writer: Aleksandar Radivojevic and Srdjan SpasojevicД¬ast: Srdjan Todorovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Katarina Zutic, Sergei TrifunovicДЄfter provoking heated debate at festival screenings around the world, A Serbian Film came to the attention of the British public in August, when it was pulled from FrightFest following a decision by the BBFC to cut it by nearly four minutes.

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