Why so much hype?

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Don't Believe the Hype

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This was probably the most disappointing independent film I have ever seen. I was expecting something thrilling, shocking and far more interesting than this. The situations are coherent, but it seemed like something that we see day by day; something that eventually we will manage to resolve by ourselves like a question on an exam. Something completely indifferent.The acting was descent, if not great. I would liked that the actress who played Eliza had more scenes, because her performance was the best thing of this movie. Romeo was good, but he had scenes that were very long and boring to death. Everyone else was find I guess.The script was realistic but, as I said before, it was like a bunch of conversations that we hear or have every day, nothing special actually.If you are expecting a shocking and unforgettable movie, this is not for you, because believe me, it is completely forgettable and probably you will want to have your time and money back, maybe as much as I do.

A realistic Romanian drama about the struggles, compromises and implications of the parent's role in a family. This is a really intelligent, well made film that gives a bleak representation of contemporary life in Romania, particularly the youth who are told by their previous generation that they must hope and start fresh in a depressing state, though they are searching for their identities themselves. I liked that the film didn't stretch the emotional depth to a point that it seemed too unlikely or cliché but rather describe an honest family situation. It did in places fall flat but it's ambiguous ending alludes to the mysteries and uncertainty of life which serves the premise of the film nicely.

1642/5000 I see this movie, I have been very well. Little by little I begin to see that the whole film is cast with plane sequence, all the sequences have only one plane. I imagine he did it for pure marketing. The problem, for my taste is that in many moments the movie asks me to see things that I do not see. I do not care if you make a change of plan or do a good staging with actors and camera movements so that everything that has to come out on the screen comes out but the problem is that it does not and I see many moments with actors talking And I see only neck. Actors crying and I only see hair. Car actors talking and I only see the view from behind, that serves me.It could have been a great movie, the actors are all very well, or at least what they are seen. In making a sequential shot, the actors are asked for extra tension and perform it, but the director does not use it well. It's a movie that would be believable, but so many bad moments, it gets me too much of the film.The script is pretty good denouncing too many things, but the problem is that leaves many things half-way, without closing. The film begins with the breaking of a glass and I do not know who did it.The photograph is not good or bad, it is normal, it does not tell me anything, I know it is a Romanian film by the photograph.As I said I do not like the direction, but it is also that the film is too long and that has not been avoided either.Set today, everything about art, makeup and hairdressing is well taken care of.In short, it has the ballast of when it is not known how to use the technical resources well.

Graduation, by Cristian Mungiu reviewed by NC WeilThis 2016 Romanian film by the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, spans the time between a young woman's high school final exams and her graduation. Her father, a doctor, and mother, a librarian, though estranged (he sleeps on the couch and has a lover), both dote on their daughter, and their highest concern is her well-being. The girl is an excellent student, but the day before her exams she is attacked by a would-be rapist - in the scuffle her wrist is broken, but her violation goes far deeper than bones in a cast. Her father, a precise, methodical, and - yes - kind man, is determined to see her go to university in the UK where she has been offered a scholarship (contingent on high exam scores). He will do anything to make that plan happen. The assault is one more reason - Romania, for him, is a dead end. He and his wife are stuck there, but for their daughter, it is not too late. She must leave.The film opens with a rock shattering a window of their ground-floor apartment - the doctor certainly has a point about the benefits of living elsewhere - and he has labored to give her the chance to escape. But after the assault she gets cold feet.Strip away the differences between Romania's culture and our own, and the film boils down to a father wanting what he is convinced is best for his near-adult daughter, with his intentions overriding her own desires and distractions. Graduation is about leaving one phase of life to move into the next. The impossibility of planting your own experience directly into the heart and mind of a grown child is on painful display here - you have learned the hard way what you should have done, but she, rationally or not, has to make her own choices.For a parent, relinquishing control can mean one's life has truly been wasted - you didn't save yourself, and you can't save her either. But she's no longer yours to control - to insist on obedience is to keep her dependent, unable to be any kind of adult. In the end, that stunting is probably a worse trap than whatever limits her bad decisions impose. Mungiu's sympathy for all his characters forces us to recognize that everyone, no matter how corrupt or self-serving, is just trying to make the best of the life they're stuck in. Futility outranks evil in his compromised worldview.