Pororoca

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.

To build a character is more than long fixed shoting. Yes, it takes effort to come up with a script that contributes to psychological build up. This is another example of Romanian cinematography that lacks imagination and technical craft. Actors play well, but they cannot save the entire production.

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.

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.

Too many dead scenes, where nothing happens. They went to the park, let the camera roll and bam! "I got you, bro, at least 5 minutes of footage".

Otherwise actors were quite ok. But I wouldn't recommend watching this movie. Maybe if you skip the dead scenes with fast forward, the movie will get bearable, and you'll save yourself 1,5 hours.