AND LOVE VANISHED (1961) (Church of Film)

Jovana and Mirko meet by chance at an outdoor cinema in Belgrade and end up caught in the rain. Their encounter leads to a fraught courtship, a giddy and breathless love, a relationship, and at last, disillusionment. Considered the first masterpiece of the Yugoslav New Wave, Aleksandr Petrovic’s AND LOVE VANISHED captures young love with all its pangs of excitement, and its inevitable failures and disasters, like few other films ever have. A jazzy, moody film about youth, love and alienation.