Karmadonna
[Aleksandar] Radivojević has quickly established himself as one of the world’s most obscene filmmakers. If this appeals to you, you already know who you are. Everyone else should stay clear.
From the twisted mind of A Serbian Film co-writer Aleksandar Radivojević, one of the century’s most notorious and popularly controversial films, comes KARMADONNA, a gory and blasphemous feast of violence about Buddha (yes, that one) commanding a pregnant woman to kill criminals – or he will kill her baby.
The cadre she murders are some of the worst people imaginable: rapists, men who force abortions, corrupt cops and sex traffickers. Punk teenagers, annoying Instagrammers and self-help authors also get thrown into the mix, leveling out their disreputable characters with humanity’s worst. Radivojević’s Serbian directorial debut is the sacrilegious child of Saw and Lone Wolf and Cub, with irredeemable characters executing extrajudicial justice in a hellish society.
Jelena (Jelena Djokić) would do anything to protect her baby, and that’s why the Buddha picks her to do his bidding. He is not the loving and peaceful Siddhartha Gautama from popular religious tradition. He inherits a concept of karma from the real-life dharmic traditions and becomes the official enforcer of divine retribution.
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