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Moartea domnului Lazarescu (2005)

(Romania) Cristi Puiu's dark, barbed social satire, set in the bureaucratic nightmare of Romanian socialized medicine, stars Ion Fiscuteanu as a flinty pensioner who starts off the film complaining of headaches and stomach cramps and ends up bounced from hospital to hospital, deteriorating to a state of numb incoherence while doctors and admitting nurses scold him like a naughty child. The scathing dark comedy cuts like a scalpel and won the Prix de Certain Regard at Cannes in 2005.