Dragoste 1: Câine

Story is broken. Luckily, it's beautifully shot, so at least you could linger on the images. You will be waiting and praying to get a sense of the story, which starts as a quest for the truth, a love story, and then predictibly ends up in a blurry mess. You won't get it. I laughed out loud finding out that the lead actress got awarded as best actress in a leading role in Romania for this part. What a joke 😂

Very little happens and yet you have this intense feeling watching. It is pleasant to see something out of the ordinary, the quiet life in the woods, the beauty of the Transsylvanian landscape. The campfire outside, cooking with a wooden stick for a spoon, wolves howling ... suggesting werewolves. I like the timelessness. The setting could be 1920'es or 1930'es, but also later. We see a way of living that a lot of people is longing for today based on all the reality series about city people being dumped in the wild. I wasn't bored for one second. It has this right feeling of 'movie'. Of wonder.

We loved this film. The photography is beautiful. The acting is understated but very convincing. It is slow, and a lot of Hollywood/American film lovers will not like that.

But then we tend not to like American films for their brashness and sugary sentimentality.