Tribeca 2009: "Here and There."
Men are from New York and women are from Serbia in "Here and There," the first narrative film from writer/director Darko Lungulov, a sweet-natured, by the book, fish-out-of-water comedy. Technically, some of the men are also from Serbia, but though it tries to tell the dual stories of an American man traveling to Belgrade to bestow a visa on a girl he hasn't met by marrying her, and the Serbian man in New York trying to raise enough money to pay him for that service, "Here and There" is weighted toward the former. Robert, played by eternal character actor David Thornton, is a failed 50-something musician with a nonspecific chip on his shoulder ("I can't play anymore -- I don't know why"). Evicted from his apartment, he makes a deal with his man-with-a-van mover Branko (Branislav Trifunovic) to assist in retrieving the younger man's girlfriend from Belgrade in exchange for...
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