‘Tereza37’ Review: A Modern Urban Woman’s Pursuit of Motherhood in a Patriarchal Society – NewsBreak

‘Tereza37’ Review: A Modern Urban Woman’s Pursuit of Motherhood in a Patriarchal Society – NewsBreak

‘Tereza37’ Review: A Modern Urban Woman’s Pursuit of Motherhood in a Patriarchal Society – NewsBreak

Tereza sleeps alone in bed near the opening of “Tereza37,” Danilo Serbedzija’s placidly paced Croatian drama with edges both witty and shrewdly dark. It’s an image that stands as a fitting visual foreword to Serbedzija’s film, as Tereza is often solitary at home despite being married; her husband is regularly absent, gone out to the sea frequently on his unspecified aquatic job. Then the scene’s significance grows as Tereza rolls over, revealing her blood-soaked undergarments and sheets that Serbedzija’s matter-of-fact camera captures with unsentimental directness. Soon after she cleans it all up in a series of routine, Jeanne Dielman-esque moves,…