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It had great intensity that really made the movie. The part where Otilia is at the dinner table is so well done, you really feel her anxst. Great performance from Anamaria!
7/10
13.3.2008 -
dianajackson28@ - age: 18-25
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They say is not what you present, but how you do it what gives your art the power of expresion. This movie had the "what" but lacked the "how", unfortunatelly. It is not art to grab a camera, go to Darfur for example, preferably during a militia raid, and film a whole bunch of dead people. That's reality, no one could ever argue that, but does it represent art? To go back to this movie: I felt it was a blunt representation of what Romania looked like during comunism. Nothing more than that. A documentary, if you'd like. Full of obscenities, disturbing images, raw facts. I wrote the key word: raw. This is what this movie was all about, this is why the western world is so thrilled with it: it is raw, un-edited, maybe even full of some kind of exotism. I have seen a lot of disturbing movies about violent times and ruthless people (what could be more desturbing for example than what the Schindler's List presents? ), but they all more or less had the "how", managed to give people some "inside" ," what if I..." perspective. Not this one. When will people learn that a bunch of obscenities do not make a good movie? Very disappointed...
3/10
13.3.2008 -
adrian@ - age: 26-35
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This is not an easy film to watch, you might even think nothing is happening, but how loaded is the message here. Many claim this is a film simply about abortion. But I don't agree... I saw it as the politics of women not only those living in a communist regime but in our society... the duality of roles pressed upon her. As painful as it was to sit through this film. Partly for being witness to the grim atmosphere and the stylistic bareness... in retrospect this was a beautiful story about friendship between 2 women, that they have only each other to count on... the irony of the situation that one woman must perform inorder to free the other, that they are both polytech students traditionally a mans pursuit doesn't belie the repression here is at the hands of men, and cruelly abortion is the byproduct of a womans emancipation. And we are left with the number 1, the haunting image will not leave you.
10/10
9.2.2008 -
aurora800@
Almost from the onset you sense a tension, not knowing exactly what is going to happen or how. Anamaria Marinca is excellent in her role has Otilia; very credible acting. It's good cinéma, worth about 8½!
8/10
6.2.2008 -
black,jack@ - age: 50+
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