daniel_iftene

It's four for this animation as it almost succeeded to practically put me to sleep... definitely. I didn't get any of the characters and less of all that fluffy multi-legged stuff that danced the heck out of the animals. One thing that really make me hate this movie was the fact that the cattle, bulls and cows, all had udders. And no horns at all. So, the only intelligent way the producers found to make a distinction between the two was by placing ribbons on the cows' ears. You cannot do such things. So, don't watch it unless you are a cattle lover... Or don't watch it anyway. This film is annoying, boring, not funny, clicheistic...

Do sick parents give birth to sick children... wrong question. Do all these apparently sick children are all that sick or they are just walking the very thin line between being a genius or a madman. Caouette is really pointing to that in his autobiographical documentary, Tarnation, a breathtaking compilation of various footage from different moments of his fabulous life. Covering a wide range of approaches, from realism to surrealism, the 90-minutes-film keeps you there, connected to the somehow exhausting flow of images, stories and music, through the ingenuous editing of this "enfant terrible", Jonathan Caouette. What else can I say... if it was all for real, than... wow!

It seems that 15 it's a film raising some very serious questions about how cinema may be a source of coping with our recent history. Is 15 - a film that evokes the days of the Romanian Revolution from December 1989 which led to the new achieved Romanian democracy - a good piece of cinema because it brings back those tragic moments? For me, this film is a failure. Not a complete failure, but still a failure. The film implies an emotional impact on those who know what the December '89 Revolution was all about: the journalist who comes, after 15 years, to Romania, to find a child who was born during those days, a journalist who is searching for the way Romanians dealt with the moment they gained their freedom. Unfortunately, the technique spoils this whole idea: the sound and the music are appalling, the dialogues are artificial, the shooting is dull. They really make this film un-watchable and make you wonder on the so-called "great Romanian directors"...