Interesting film, in spite of many blurry and rough spots in the plot. However. If you really engage in it, you will understand the point. A "dead man" walking, a terminally ill French guy Joachim, gets all of a sudden some "calling" in his life, some feeling that he is reincarnation of a Bosnian-Serbian soldier who died the day he was born, in 1983. His friend Alice who has already spent some time in Bosnia earlier, wants to help him live up this fantasy and agrees to make a documentary about this so they travel to Bosnia. But Alice is also haunted by her own ghosts of dead Bosnian Muslims who died in Bosnia in the war 1990s. So these two stories which are actually unrelated, Bosnian Serbian who dies in the 1980s and massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1990s come together in one synchronized tune in the end, lived through the moving friendship of protagonists and their engagement with the local Balkan rustic retro environment and picturesque people. For those people who know Bosnian and Balkan context local history and people, this film is actually better than it looks like for somebody unrelated. It is obvious it was made by someone who knows the context and has an authentic relationship with region, people, language etc.
Review of Heroes Don't Die
