In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

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1991
7.4/10

Moll Flanders
1996
6.1/10

Restless
2011
6.5/10

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
2012
6.5/10

Evening
2007
5.8/10

Along for the Ride
2022
6.7/10

Horns
2013
6.3/10

Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2020
7.1/10

Suncoast
2024
6.7/10

Young Adam
2003
5.8/10

Beast
2018
6.5/10

Dragonfly
2002
6.5/10

Past Lives
2023
7.7/10

Suburbia
1984
6.7/10

Breezy
1973
6.8/10

Palindromes
2005
6.2/10

New Life
2016
6.6/10

If These Walls Could Talk
1996
6.6/10

Ashes in the Snow
2018
6.4/10

Jersey Girl
2004
6.2/10
Once Were Warriors
1994
7.373/10