It's four for this animation as it almost succeeded to practically put me to sleep... definitely. I didn't get any of the characters and less of all that fluffy multi-legged stuff that danced the heck out of the animals. One thing that really make me hate this movie was the fact that the cattle, bulls and cows, all had udders. And no horns at all. So, the only intelligent way the producers found to make a distinction between the two was by placing ribbons on the cows' ears. You cannot do such things. So, don't watch it unless you are a cattle lover... Or don't watch it anyway. This film is annoying, boring, not funny, clicheistic...
Reviews
4 Reviews
Tarnation
(2003)
If all that was for real, than it was one heck of a ride
27 August 2006
Do sick parents give birth to sick children... wrong question. Do all these apparently sick children are all that sick or they are just walking the very thin line between being a genius or a madman. Caouette is really pointing to that in his autobiographical documentary, Tarnation, a breathtaking compilation of various footage from different moments of his fabulous life. Covering a wide range of approaches, from realism to surrealism, the 90-minutes-film keeps you there, connected to the somehow exhausting flow of images, stories and music, through the ingenuous editing of this "enfant terrible", Jonathan Caouette. What else can I say... if it was all for real, than... wow!
15
(2005)
Good idea, bad film-making
1 February 2006
It seems that 15 it's a film raising some very serious questions about how cinema may be a source of coping with our recent history. Is 15 - a film that evokes the days of the Romanian Revolution from December 1989 which led to the new achieved Romanian democracy - a good piece of cinema because it brings back those tragic moments? For me, this film is a failure. Not a complete failure, but still a failure. The film implies an emotional impact on those who know what the December '89 Revolution was all about: the journalist who comes, after 15 years, to Romania, to find a child who was born during those days, a journalist who is searching for the way Romanians dealt with the moment they gained their freedom. Unfortunately, the technique spoils this whole idea: the sound and the music are appalling, the dialogues are artificial, the shooting is dull. They really make this film un-watchable and make you wonder on the so-called "great Romanian directors"...
Examen
(2003)
On the right track!
1 February 2006
The last years proved that Romanian cinematography is on the right track. Films like Filantropica, Occident, Moartea domnului Lazarescu are the signs that Romanian filmmakers are, finally, trying to compete both Eropean and American productions, escaping that localism that, in my opinion, spoils many Romanian productions. From this point of view, Exam has been an overwhelming experience. I had no great expectations and maybe this added some good points for it. This and, of course, some very good usage of film-making techniques: no artificial dialogues, no theater-like interpretation, some very good shooting and - something that Romanian filmmakers forget about - a soundtrack that made sense. The story too was pretty surprising for me, as, from the beginning, I was expecting another film about the "day-to-day Romanian tragedy". Surprisingly, the insights on the late Romanian Communist system and the brutality of Securitate - the Romanian Secret Police - in the '80's are quite accurate and the idea of generation gap (the young that do not understand what the communist dictatorial regime was all about)is implied without any judgmental attitude. All in all, after watching Exam, my first idea was to recommend it to everyone I know... I'm starting here!
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