Enescu, Skinned Alive

A bouquet of joy, emotional moments, and artistic sense - this is how I would describe this movie, which is, in fact, an experience. A brilliant blend of sensibility, spirit, wounded memories, and love, that offers the audience a key to Enescu's genius, accompanied by lovely visual shots and the era's gracious perfume.

Congratulations to the entire team for the incredible work, passion, creativity, and dedication!

The world should experience the magic you've created, especially the younger generation!

I still can hear "Poema Româna" playing in my mind...and in my soul...

It felt like poetry...

Bad acting, bad cinematography, bad editing, and no script, but besides all this it's very good - I'm kidding!

The dialog is almost entirely made up of quotes, and it shows: it doesn't flow and has no logic. There is nothing in this film about the real Enescu, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Why is he a great composer? One can never find out about it from this film.

Of course, the film makers are only interested in gossip and his love life. And this wouldn't be so bad if they showed the contrast between the greatness of the artist and the flaws of his married life, which would have been a real subject for a good film.

P. S. In the end credits, the pretentious filmmakers wrote the name of one 'L. W. Beethoven'. So much for the accuracy level of this lame flick.

I had the chance to see this movie in two different festivals that I attended, in Monacco and Los Angeles, and I'm in awe of the creative team that made it. No wonder it won so many awards. I did not know who Enescu was, but I was completely captivated by the story. Such a great way to discover brilliant musicians and inspiring love stories! The actors are well picked, costumes are great and the music is simply amazing. Behind all this can be nothing but a great director. I highly recommend this skillfully crafted movie to all film and classical music lovers. In a world full of noise and violence, it is comforting to find films as beautiful and moving as this one.

I honestly think Elenescu Skinned Alive was terrible and didn't deserve any of the awards it got. I went in with high expectations because of all the hype, but it felt like a complete waste of time. The pacing was painfully slow, and the plot, if you can even call it that, was confusing and pretentious for no good reason. The characters were flat, and it seemed like the director was trying too hard to be "artistic" rather than telling a story that actually made sense. Half the time, I found myself checking the time, wondering when it would finally be over.

The cinematography was dark and shaky in a way that felt forced, and the dialogue was either too quiet to hear or so strange it was hard not to cringe. I didn't feel connected to any of the characters, and the film's attempts to shock the audience felt cheap rather than meaningful. I genuinely cannot understand how this film managed to win awards when it didn't deliver on basic storytelling, emotional connection, or even visual coherence.

Honestly, the best part of the entire experience was the comfortable seats I was sitting in, which at least made it bearable to sit through the mess unfolding on the screen. Other than that, I would not recommend this film to anyone, unless you're looking for an example of how a movie can fail while still pretending to be dee.

Enescu skinned alive - a film by Toma Enache Finally a movie that made my whole being (mind-body-spirit) vibrating. A movie that is not about gangsters, guns and violence but about the art of music, love and beauty.

It is about the life of a genius Romanian classic music composer, his inner emotional univers, his struggles, his ups and downs in the world of creativity and recognition but also it is about the passionate love between him and the beautiful princes Maruca No, I am not gonna narrate the story in this movie but instead I am telling how this movie made me feel from the first music note till to the last one.

It was like my whole being was willingly kidnapped and flown away through a time tunel to the XIX Century. The decore, epoch costumes, interior decorations the streets of Paris with beautiful arhitecture or the rustic house with a beautiful garden in Moldavia where Enescu was born and spent his childhood, the magnificent palaces and concert halls, the elegance of beautiful women, the romantic evenings where piano was played by Enescu for the high class audiences.... all these has made me forget for 2 hours the present times where the soul of the world I live in has become poorer with each technological advancement and oh boy, I felt so happy for 2 hours when this movie helped me to escape it into a like fairytale world.

Assuming that each cell of the human body is a music instrument ... well, this movie has made all my "instruments" play and vibrate in a perfect, devine like, harmony with not even one false note.

The passionate love between Enescu princess Maruca has given the movie sweet, erotic, sometimes even dramatic flavors which I have absorbed with pleasurable emotions.

My mind was really impressed by the wisdom flowing out from the intelligent dialogues among the movie characters.

Yes, by making this movie the regizor Toma Enache has proven his dedication to perfection.

It was nothing I did not like about this movie,. Oh, yes I did not like when the movie ended and I found myself back in the present.

It was no wonder that this movie has been the winner of 45 international prestigious awards

Dini Trandu - a fan of art, music poetry, love and beauty.