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2009 (Romania) morePlot:
A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Tedious, plodding, ultimately unbearable more (11 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dragos Bucur | ... | Cristi |
| Vlad Ivanov | ... | Anghelache |
| Irina Saulescu | ... | Anca |
| Ion Stoica | ... | Nelu |
| Marian Ghenea | ... | Prosecutor |
| Cosmin Selesi | ... | Costi |
 | George Remes | ... | Vali |
| Dan Cogalniceanu | ... | Vic |
| Serban Georgevici | ... | Politist |
| Costi Dita | ... | Officer on Duty |
| Alexandru Sabadac | ... | Alex |
| Anca Diaconu | ... | Doina |
| Radu Costin | ... | Victor |
| Viorel Nebunu | ... | Alex's Father |
| Emanoela Tigla | ... | Alex's Mother |
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Wow.
I tried to like it.
And maybe I will - some day. When I convince myself to try to sit through it again.
But, on this initial viewing, I couldn't make it through the first 30 minutes. So, take this as a disclaimer: this is a partial review. I don't speak for the whole film. Perhaps it blossomed into something incredible. I hope it did.
I normally enjoy long takes and slower pacing, but in this case, and in my opinion, the film went too far.
The film was so static that it almost became a still photograph. Literally. Take, for example, a section where a man watches the house of another man. He watches. The shot doesn't change. He keeps watching, he barely moves. A woman and her dog walk past just outside the frame. Five minutes later, he's still watching. And we're still watching him. In the same shot. Lots of watching. Lots of stillness. Lots of, in my opinion, indulgent film making.
Such a style asks A LOT of an audience. And I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't up for it. I'm sure there are more stalwart audience members out there.
I wouldn't have minded it, I think, if I had felt some sense of articulation, some sense of carving out from the real-time to create meaning.
But, I didn't.
At least, not before I got up and left...