Yiannis doesn’t have much going for him, save for his adorable dog, Jimi, and his fast-approaching date to get out of Cyprus for good. But when Jimi wanders across the U.N. buffer zone and into the section of the island Turkey seized more than forty years ago, an unregulated state unrecognized by the rest of the world, Yiannis learns, bringing a dog back over the border is not as easy as walking straight home. He enlists a mismatched band of accomplices from every side of the Cyprus dispute to find a way to get Jimi back, while never leaving the land he calls home.
Writer and director Marios Piperides has been producing films in Cyprus for more than a decade, and his inside knowledge pays dividends in this narrative feature debut—a whip-smart comedy on legality, disputed nationality, and the frameworks that are erected to maintain a fragile peace. He demonstrates his compassion for locals on both sides of the divide, as he tenderly captures their struggle to find hope and make a living in a divided land. Such serious themes pair perfectly with Piperides’s sense of humor: As Yiannis’s efforts dip farther into absurdity, they offer a send-up of the forces that prolong a conflict that has been poorly understood and largely forgotten by the outside world.
包裹着地缘政治的轻喜剧，愉悦氛围与严肃思考的比例分配得恰到好处，非常讨喜的片子。对于全球趋于保守封闭的一种忧虑。
Yiannis doesn’t have much going for him save for his adorable dog Jimi and his fast-approaching date to get out of Cyprus for good. But when Jimi wanders across the U.N. buffer zone and into the section of the island Turkey seized more than forty years ago an unregulated state unrecognized by the rest of the world Yiannis learns bringing a dog back over the border is not ...
像极了东欧小品，以狗喻人，以萌犬失踪为契机探讨国家分裂，以萌犬偷渡为线索寻求和解。看的时候金马奖也正在进行，不由得感伤，分裂易和解难，尤记起周总理那句警训：求同存异。
以简单的寻狗事件过渡到国家间的历史遗留问题，既搞笑又兼具一定深度，节奏感好，配乐不错。结尾看似戛然而止，其实正是对现实政治的巧妙嘲讽。
影厅的一群老外就像情景剧中的背景笑声，也可能，是狗的杀伤力太强吧。中规中矩，类型片层面没什么亮点，前半设定入戏后，后半就显出编剧创造力匮乏了，走向没惊喜，细节很无趣，人物塑造上作为喜剧也不够讨喜。好在这个基于现实的切入点够吸引人，而且，我本来就是冲着异国情调去的，不是吗？
