9/10
Magical Realism
18 January 2017
The plot of the film is very interesting. A student under communist regime wants to escape from Romania...same time he meet an exiled poet Ovid from Roman empire who wants to return to Rome (during the dictatorship of Augustus . They comes to an agreement to help each other....This satire has multiple dimensions to explore. Socially, politically, historically the film is multi-layered and intriguing. It presents the repeating forms of dictatorships in different ages of history. It is about power, domination, social engineering and individual's struggle against totalitarianism of the state.

The film maker has done a good job. The historical reality is interwoven with fictional fantasy. The humor rules the all....
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