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Movie Diary - 2011 (505 movies items)

"1.10.2011"

Yhden Tähden Foorumi 2000's list (50 movies items)

"Juize 13. Harmonica 1. Lamourhaaja 23. Tapio 33. The Wolf 2. Wendel 12."

Watched films in 2009 (jawing in Finnish) (95 movies items)

"Aivan saatanan upeasti toteutettu minimalismin ylistyslaulu. Pitkien ottojen ja dialogin varaan rakennetut kohtaukset ja hallittu käsivarakuvaus luovat helvetillisen intensiivisen tunnelman, jota ei riko sitten mikään. Äärimmäiseen realismiin ulottuva elokuva on parhaimpia mahdollisia esimerkkejä elokuvakerronnan voimasta. Samanaikaisesti sekä erittäin hieno kuvaus elämänsä viimeisiä tunteja elävästä alkoholistiäijänkäppänästä että mahtava satiiri Bukarestin hivenen toimim"

300 great films (300 movies items)

"Minimalism at its finest and intensive as hell. Also a great satire about fucked up health care system."

A Night of Frustration

“This was a very well made movie, with interesting dilemmas in it. But be prepared to be frustrated. You follow along as a lonely old man decides he's sick enough to call for help. You see as he talks to his neighbors, gets assessed by the paramedics, and transported to emergency room, diagnostics and finally surgery and how everyone has an opinion about his health. But it's not so simple as that. You get to see people in the medical field work, some very helpful, some dismissive. It's very documentary in style, and in that way a very slow and deliberate movie. And although this is a Romanian film (with subtitles), this could easily be anywhere in the world. Everyone along the way has to make choices, including the patient. And this movie reminds you that of that huge web, and mult” read more