Yes, film is depresing, but It has to be like this... how one can feel having no idea where his child is. The biggest pain a parent can have! You can feel their pain. Movie is two hours and a half long, but you realised it only after the ending.
Plot summary
Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties and live an ordinary life in a nice apartment in a Romanian town, but one Sunday morning when Tudor takes his kids to the park, Maria disappears. Their lives abruptly change forever.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
August 13, 2023 at 11:22 AM
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Painfull but real
Fantastic but too long
That's it. Watch it, it's a good drama but only if you're really patient and have your phone at the ready and playing a match 3 game. Really didnt need to be 2.5 hours. Excruciating long camera pauses and boringdepictions of... nothing. It feels like an extended cut. I agree it is mood setting however i believe the "lull" scenes could have been more interesting to the viewer. A fantastic ending too but they could have given us a little more certainty since we just invested 2.5 h.
Painful
Aside from the wholly unintelligible title (and, yes, I am fluent in Romanian), the film is depressing and way too long. Every scene is drawn out to interminable lengths, as the camera lingers on unnecessary details. I get it that the director was trying to establish a mood, but it comes at the cost of making the viewer impatient for something to happen. Something eventually does happen but it's not worth the pain of getting there.
The acting is good; the principal actor, Bogdan Dumitrache, is very good. The dialogue is credible. The production values are good. One just wishes this had been brought to a close in 90 minutes rather than 152.