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Child's Pose

Original title: Pozitia copilului
  • 20132013
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
8.5K
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33,428
5,510
Child's Pose (2013)
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After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
8.5K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
33,428
5,510
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Cãlin Peter Netzer
    • Writers
      • Razvan Radulescu(screenplay)
      • Cãlin Peter Netzer(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Luminita Gheorghiu
      • Bogdan Dumitrache
      • Natasa Raab
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Cãlin Peter Netzer
    • Writers
      • Razvan Radulescu(screenplay)
      • Cãlin Peter Netzer(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Luminita Gheorghiu
      • Bogdan Dumitrache
      • Natasa Raab
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 24User reviews
    • 129Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
    • Awards
      • 13 wins & 8 nominations

    Videos2

    Child's Pose
    Trailer 1:49
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    Trailer 1:49
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    Child's Pose (2013)
    Child's Pose (2013)
    Luminita Gheorghiu in Child's Pose (2013)
    Child's Pose (2013)
    Luminita Gheorghiu and Natasa Raab in Child's Pose (2013)
    Ilinca Goia in Child's Pose (2013)
    Vlad Ivanov in Child's Pose (2013)
    Luminita Gheorghiu and Ilinca Goia in Child's Pose (2013)
    Luminita Gheorghiu and Florin Zamfirescu in Child's Pose (2013)
    Luminita Gheorghiu, Natasa Raab, and Florin Zamfirescu in Child's Pose (2013)
    Luminita Gheorghiu, Teodor Corban, and Gelu Coleag in Child's Pose (2013)
    Ilinca Goia and Bogdan Dumitrache in Child's Pose (2013)

    Top cast

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    Luminita Gheorghiu
    Luminita Gheorghiu
    • Cornelia Keneres
    Bogdan Dumitrache
    Bogdan Dumitrache
    • Barbu
    Natasa Raab
    • Olga Cerchez
    Ilinca Goia
    Ilinca Goia
    • Carmen
    Florin Zamfirescu
    • Domnul Aurelian Fagarasanu
    Vlad Ivanov
    Vlad Ivanov
    • Dinu Laurentiu
    Mimi Branescu
    Mimi Branescu
    • Policeman
    Cerasela Iosifescu
    Adrian Titieni
    Adrian Titieni
    • Child's father
    Tania Popa
    Leontina Vaduva
    • Leontina Vaduva, the Soprano
    • (as Leontina Väduva)
    Ion Grosu
    Oxana Moravec
    Mihai Dorobantu
    Nicolae Scarlat
    Silvia Dogaru
    Ionut Hotea
    Ana Maria Samson
    • Director
      • Cãlin Peter Netzer
    • Writers
      • Razvan Radulescu(screenplay)
      • Cãlin Peter Netzer(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Official submission of Romania for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 86th Academy Awards in 2014.
    • Quotes

      Cornelia Keneres: What did I do wrong?

      Barbu: Never mind now. I'm putting this on the table. You can say yes or no. You either let me call you when I feel like it, or it's nothing. And a suggestion. If it's hard, find a substitute. A dog, a lover, a hobby. People your age visit the Pyramids.

      Cornelia Keneres: Other people my age have a normal relationship with their child. Parents find their fulfillment in their children. Everything they failed to accomplish, they achieve through their children.

      Barbu: So we're agreed.

    • Soundtracks
      Meravigliosa creatura
      (1995)

      Written by Gianna Nannini and Mara Redigheri

      Performed by Gianna Nannini

    User reviews24

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    Top review
    8/10
    People at its Heart
    I happened to catch a screening of the film attended by the director and some of the actors, followed by a short Q&A. This sort of effort is part of a greater plan to bring appraised Romanian films closer to the Romanian audience, while also creating an association with the people responsible for their success, more often than not "against the odds".

    What sets Netzer's film apart from some of the other recent Romanian works of cinema is its sardonic humor which works best when it's aimed at the characters and not at some of the pervasive practices of society. I've personally always felt that personal stories, meaning character stories, always came in second to some grand piece of social commentary, usually on the communist background of the country, in most of the acclaimed Romanian cinema of the 21st century. Not to say that such commentary lacks relevance, but there's just more to modern life than its dark red heritage.

    Of course, "Pozitia Copilului" is deeply rooted in antics which one could call symptomatic of Romania and as a means of characterization, the backdrop is justifiable. Occasionally though, when certain aspects come across a bit too hard pressed, they do a disservice to the otherwise excellent balance of a difficult story. This does in no way undermine the beautifully detailed portrait of the film's main character, a highly controlling, bossy, arrogant, mean-spirited mother whose faults go quite a way to being redeemed by the passionate dedication with which she tries to protect her son, who had killed a child in a car accident. The ambivalence is so finely portrayed by Luminita Gheorghiu that both the moments of involuntary humor and the moments of pure drama work just as well.

    It's ironic that Mrs. Gheorghiu also played in "Moartea Domnului Lazarescu", a film I found to be close at heart with "Pozitia Copilului", in that it relies heavily on a complex central character and its critique is subtle, yet scathing. I'd go so far as to say that these kind of films, while still dominated by a type of post-modernist bleakness, can lead a shift of focus to the greater importance of characters as individuals in Romanian movies, not only as symbol stand-ins.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 8, 2013 (Romania)
    • Country of origin
      • Romania
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Romanian
    • Also known as
      • Поза дитини
    • Filming locations
      • Bucharest, Romania
    • Production companies
      • Parada Film
      • Hai Hui Entertainement
      • HBO Romania
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €850,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $97,170
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,955
      • Feb 23, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $994,126
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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