Whenever Rajko Grlić announces a new film as his last one, stating that he is tired, that he has reached the age when his peers keep departing day after day, that he cannot deal with producers, co-producers, finances and so on, he makes a movie better than the previous one. The Border Post was good, Just Between Us was very good, while The Constitution is the best among his "last films" and, in my opinion, equals his three masterpieces: You Love Only Once, Bravo Maestro, and In the Jaws of Life.
Telegram, Croatia
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Truly courageous movie, probably the most courageous Croatian movie of the new Millennium.
Slobodna Dalmacija, Croatia
After one week in release, The Constitution has been seen by 16.314 viewers, which is the third most successful opening of a Croatian film since Croatia became an independent state.
Jutarnji list, Croatia
Absurd but unpleasantly realistic.
Dnevnik, Slovenia
New film by Rajko Grlić, The Constitution, highly praised throughout the region, has opened numerous questions, primarily the question of man as a social being who is craving for love. And love is an endless story in which we meet in various ways. In Novi Sad, the film received standing ovations.
Korzo, Serbia
We sorely need movies like this because they send a message and tackle the issues which exceed cinematography and become educational and socially relevant. The Constitution will have you worried, it will move you but it will also make you laugh.
Kritika, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Constitution is meticulously crafted, with simple and elegant camera work and compelling performances, especially by famous Serbian actor Nebojsa Glogovac as the lead; his stellar, nuanced performance (with great depth and acuity) of such a complex character, is hard to expect to be seen soon from aforementioned region. This immensely bold and brutally honest top-notch melodrama produced on a modest scale, which contains Grlic’s trademarks as dramatic conflict explored with intense emotional investment, seasoned with a refined sense of humor, skillfully deals with once again increasing intolerance in Croatia, yet its intelligent, deeply profound and insightful multilayered texture goes far beyond local, addressing an urgent global problem. Grlic’s polished and subtle directing evokes the best pieces of Douglas Sirk or Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Filmfestival.com
The Constitution is a whistleblowing film that touches on a series of social, political and ethnic issues still unresolved in the former Yugoslav territories. Addressing a delicate topic such as brutality towards minorities could have easily resulted in a mawkish film aimed at stirring the audience to tears, but writer-director Grlic has succeeded in portraying a slice of Croatian society without it resulting in a pedantic and didactic finished product.
Cineuropa.org
The Constitution is a movie which tells a love story about hate; a movie which does not leave you indifferent, but causes happiness and sadness at the same time.
Justforthisfeeling.wordpress.com
One must be genuinely kind and full of empathy, like the authors of The Constitution are, in order to manage to combine criticism with tenderness, pain with humor, realism with imagination, facts with transpositions, distress with reconciliation, confrontation with transcending, hate with love, and to do all of that without false sentiment, without calculations, but in a brave yet delicate manner. If the term ‘humanism’, in its essential innocence, were to be attached to anything, it would be the film The Constitution. And anyone who needs a proof that art can achieve whatever political negotiations, thousands of conferences and seminars, analyses and a few syntheses cannot, should see The Constitution.
Danas, Serbia