Violent, cruel and form of past exorcism. An instinctual Romania of ambiguous transition to democracy, a strange mixture between purity, illusions and instincts, a society of Hieronymus Bosch atmosphere and cupidity, rape and basic desire, exploration of exotic illness and refuge in a empty fight .Story of three young people- victims of a grotesque existence in which money, compromises, lies and masks are elements of perverse normality.
Aspects after the end of Comunist nightmare. Fear an quixotic resistance, human-rats , brutal power and man as object in a chaotic economy. The fever of possession in shocking scenes,a world without soul and aspects of social trash. Freedom like exercise of fear, exotic experiment and falling of values.
Like many Romanian films, it is a cry. "Hotel de Lux", "Patul Conjugal", "Senatorul Melcilor", "Terminus Paradis" or "Prea Tarziu", "Occident" or "A fost sau n- a fost" are exploration of insidious social evil, reflections of a barbarian universe in which hopes, illusions or gestures are conventions.
At first, this dangerous exercise was part of self-flagellation. Then- description of a profound crisis and deep impurity.
In this case, important is the casting .Irina Movila,Cristi Iacob, Mihai Calin, Costel Constantin, Damian Crasmaru are authors of a strange world and its expression with a superb art to present the Romanian realities like projection of powerful angst.
A form of catharsis and testimony of national guilt. A film about a nook of East Europe and its traumas, about the passing of images and feelings, a piece of autism, in fact.
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