The Cinematheque

“An emotionally absorbing ensemble drama full of dramatic swerves and chronological loops. Novelistic in scope and texture, punctuated with poetic, dreamlike imagery … You Carry Me is a classy and compelling exercise.”

Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter

Croatian-Montenegrin writer-director Ivona Juka earned raves for her ambitious fiction-feature debut, a co-production between four Balkan countries that was Montenegro’s official submission to the 88th Oscars. The female-driven drama, set in Zagreb, juggles multiple characters and overlapping plotlines, all linked in some way to the production of a TV soap opera called Prisoners of Happiness. Dora is a soccer-loving schoolgirl with a reprobate dad; her fed-up mom works on the show. Ives is a director struggling to care for her aging father, who has Alzheimer’s. Nastasa is a producer facing difficult personal and professional challenges.