Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

westreal Taken out of context the movie might appeal to drama aficionados but the movie is in a context that is so true, so gripping it just not real without the truth. Romanians have been flocking abroad since the end of communist era and this has torn the families apart. Sure it has happened all over Eastern Europe, but Romanians have a Latin family oriented lifestyle and by losing the core of it's society (family) it is just losing the plot. Dig deeper into anyone's estranged family and you might find enough drama for a similar movie . A standing ovation for the way the story unfolded, slowly, with almost no dedicated soundtrack apart from the music that summaries right now Romania , back-water uncultured but with a resonance for the masses. Impressive !

Mon Graffito A visual artist knows that adding a little dot of light in the iris could change the whole portrait or even ruin the initial intention. Not adding the right dot, could have the same effect. Finding THAT balance, something needed in everything we do! That balance is written all over this movie! One reviewer from Romania is fed up with "movies about low-end society family problems". I don't know if Romanians make only such movies but this one is certainly not about Romania. And here the balance I was talking about becomes clear: a simple, personal tragedy may look unimportant to others but to the one who is tormented by it, it becomes life itself. The whole movie is feeding on this sentence, if I may say so. It dictates the filming and editing style (kudos for editing!), the choice of characters, dialog (probably improvised) and everything else. The movie is quiet (almost no soundtrack, very long minutes of no dialog, long takes) and yet the tension and ugliness of the personal horror could deafen someone. The hand held camera is also barely noticeable (someone was complaining about it), far from a Dogma head ache. This slight shake is a reminder the story is not a studio pose but a live action. The theme could be illustrated in many other ways, and it's been done before, probably because the theme is so human and unfortunately forever recurrent. But what impressed me the most is the movie as a whole. The film maker, if I can make him "responsible" for the result, must be a very elegant man, in terms of manners. A man that doesn't shout out his empathy but presents it on a silver tray. Bravo!

xtcklubber Must mention i laughed myself to the proximity of death when reading the first post. "A movie not for everybody, but a remarkable and intense drama,". it should have said "unless you're mentally challenged you won't like this movie".The thing is most movies aim to get the watcher emotionally involved in the actions. Either by making them identify to one of the characters or one of the good old' memories. This movie fails at both. Basically its just like witnessing another guy reading a book. You have no emotional state at all.First of all, the camera guy appears like a pure rookie, always missing focus on some key details that could later prove to be relevant. Secondly, the language is poorly though-out, the dialogs are fake and unreal. I think you can see broad daylight through the wholes in the script. Acting just adds up to the big boring picture,and above all, it is precisely their failure that makes this movie this bad. I felt asleep 4 times while trying to watch this.I'd give it a minus rating, this kind of movies is a disgrace to the founders of cinematography.

tudordumitrascu I m 1000% agree with first comment. The movie it s really good, disturbing and well played but unfortunately it is another creepy painting about Romanian society which is again represented at biggest international film competition like an third world, criminal, mindless and absurd world. We have probably the best example of an auto-destructive advertising and I really want to tell you, people from abroad, that we, Romanians, are like you, we have cars and huge hypermarkets, skyscrapers and resorts, even highways and a high education level. Only our film makers, who called themselves "artists", because they don t know to do commercial movies, remains at this cheap and easy to made story because that are also easy to sell in west.