God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija
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Every 19th January during Epiphany, a unique ceremony takes place all around Macedonia: the high priest throws a cross into the local waters while hundreds of men charge for it. The one who finds it is blessed for the whole next year and becomes kind of a local hero. Petrunya is single unemployed 31-year-old woman and a historian who lives with her parents. Returning home from a failed job interview in a sweatshop factory she witnesses the ceremony, decides to jump, swims and catches the cross. Immediately, the men attack her and wrestle the cross out of her hands since as a woman she has no right to participate. A commotion follows and at the moment of heightened confusion Petrunya runs away with the cross. Over the next few hours her jump into the icy water becomes an Internet sensation. Petrunya is taken to a police station, and this is where her ordeal begins: against the local men, against the world, against the system. From a room to a corridor, to a room again, she spends the night being transferred around the impersonal governmental spaces. She insists that she is the winner and refuses to return the cross. One by one, the policemen, the inspector, the priest unsuccessfully try to convince her to give up. Through these 24 hours we discover a society full of stereotypes, with collapsed social and justice system.
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- Zorica Nusheva
- Labina Mitevska
- Stefan Vujisic
- Suad Begovski
- Simeon Moni Damevski
- Violeta Sapkovska
- Petar Mircevski
- Andrijana Kolevska
- Nikola Kumev
- Bajrush Mjaku
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Metacritic
Feb 14, 2019
With God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, Mitevska has fashioned yet another bleak satire about Hegemonic masculinity in the Balkans.
Patrick Gamble
CineVue
Feb 14, 2019
What begins as a sprightly, shrewd, visually striking satire from Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska deflates in its second act into something unconvincing, sophomoric and dramatically redundant.
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
Feb 14, 2019
There's no mistaking the earnest anger which motivates her assault on the sexist dark ages values still to be found in many Macedonian provincial areas, but expressing it in such clunky terms does no service to the cause.
Neil Young
The Hollywood Reporter
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