Music for Weddings and Funerals

With the success of her latest autobiographical volume new feeling and a longing for life return. Declaring "I want to be disturbed!" Sara (Lena Endre) impulsively rents out the basement of the mansion to the charming but mercurial Serbian refugee Bogdan (Goran Bergovic), a struggling musician who within days installs a wild band of hard-drinking gypsy musicians in her basement, rudely awakening her to the fact that a door can not be thrown open half way, that music, life and colour are not to be contained.

With the wild, evocative melodies of the gypsies sweeping up from the basement Sara is suddenly confronted by the unexpected arrival of Peter, her ex, at his once immaculate fortress villa. The following morning Peter’s corpse is found shot dead in the cellar and Sara must begin to confront the fact that beneath the sterile exteriors of his cool European design many other women, children, lives and experiences were concealed.

Shocked to discover the extent of her ex’s infidelities Sara begins to wonder if it isn’t actually the chaotic and irrepressible Bogdan who really represents honesty in this new and open world.

Part black comedy, part sophisticated allegory, Music for Weddings and Funerals is a moving tale of loss and reconciliation in a continent struggling on the cusp of a new century. Dark, vivid, compelling, Music For Weddings and Funerals is as comic, vibrant and full of humanity as the new Europe itself.