Ibolya Fekete's Chico Ibolya Fekete won the Best Director award at Karlovy Vary last year for Chico (2001). However, critics have been sharply divided over the film's aesthetic and moral qualities. Kinoeye speaks to the director and presents a range of critical responses to the film. HUNGARY The smell of things Ibolya Fekete interviewed Chico caused controversy for exploring the issue of taking sides in the context of the Croatian war. However, Fekete tells George Clark and Laurin Federlein that explaining the war's roots is "not my film." Diverse opinions Enikõ Csíkos surveys what the press made of Chico. ANALYSIS From the battlefield to a cinema near you Pitfalls in representing the Yugoslav wars on screen Danis Tanoviæ's No Man's Land and Ibolya Fekete's Chico have both won international attention for their depiction of Europe's recent "heart of darkness." Felicitas Becker argues that the former works and the latter doesn't. From the archive Seeking truth between the bombs and bullets Andrew James Horton praises Chico but finds No Man's Land lacking

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Identity held in the hand Kinoeye presents two articles that look at possessed hands in horror films. HORROR A hand full of horrors Maurice Tourneur's La Main du diable (The Devil's Hand, 1942) Tourneur's film, made in occupied France, uses a Faustian pact and the idea of possession that would have resonated in those opposed to the Germans, as Frank Lafond argues. HORROR Of mad love, alien hands and the film under your skin Some further meditations on the horror of identity Ruth Goldberg looks at possessed hands in film versions of the "Hands of Orlac" story and traces the origins through cinema history and back to grisly medical reality.

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