The film takes aim at the brutality and amorality of contemporary Croatian society, targeting patriarchy, nationalism, and the Catholic Church, as well as homophobia. In Fine Dead Girls Iva and Marija move into an apartment building that is home to a rogues' gallery of characters: a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, a prostitute paid to break up the couple by a priest who is one girl's father, a homophobic gorgon of an apartment manager, and her son, a slacker mama's boy who rapes one of the pair to prove his masculinity. The sole woman among the leads is the cause of all conflict, while Milan's father and best friend accept his gay affair with equanimity.įine mrtve djevojke (Fine Dead Girls) 2002 Though firmly anti-Serb and anti-war, the film reads as ultimately misogynistic. Ranka eventually outs the gay men to Milan's father, while Milan is drafted into the Serbian army and killed. These two men barely kiss onscreen, though Kenan, who is bisexual, is shown having sex at least twice with Ranka, the village prostitute. The pair escape to Milan's village, where the disguise is maintained through a traditional wedding. A gay male couple in Sarajevo, Kenan, a Bosnian, and Milan, a Serb, plan to emigrate to the gay-friendly Netherlands, but the war strands them in Serb-controlled territory, and Kenan adopts female drag to avoid being found out as a circumcised Muslim.
