Taiwan Canasta

Taiwan Canasta could be described as `an authentic Belgrade game with tarot cards’. In Yugoslavia, they can predict the future for you, but you don’t always get the chance to live in it…The film sketches a funny, slightly ironic and matteroffact portrait of Sasa, an unemployed architect, frustrated artist and naïve idealist, who gets hopelessly bogged down in an attempt to adapt to the rhythm of the `new age’. Once, in the Sixties, he was young and an enthusiastic promoter of the spirit of the age. But now, Sasa is in his forties. His family situation is unstable. He still feels the need to prove himself as a ladies’ man and is not getting on with his wife. The only thing about which he is serious is the construction of a strange moving work of art that is not taken seriously by anyone else. His character turns out to be ideally suited for the aims of several dubious types who slowly win him over. They give him at last the work he has dreamed of so long, but his position becomes untenable. He is deserted by all the women who swarmed around him when he still pretended to be a `strange artist’. Now there is no time left for his posing. He has to come to terms with the truth, but it may be too late for that.