One More for the Road: Director’s Notes on Exile, Family and Film, by Rajko Grlić. Berghahn Books, 2021, 346 pp.

Abstract

Rajko Grlić’s book One More for the Road: Director’s Notes on Exile, Family and Film is an autobiographical view of a life, told through film terminology. Grlić writes the stories of his life through the lexicon of film, whether the stories are personal or work related, true or imagined, anecdotes or facts. In the story “Rome”, named after Federico Fellini’s film Roma (1972), Grlić writes: “Going through my director’s notebook which has given birth to this lexicon, I feel how my memories, like those frescoes, are fading as I tuck them in under these headings, lay them in one of the graves in this cemetery of my movies that have never been filmed” (258).

Keywords

• rajko grlić
• croatian film
• yugoslav film
• director
• autobiography