Direções

Step inside the taxis of Sofia for a glimpse into the wild heart of Bulgaria. Twist in the passenger seat as drivers have awkward encounters with drunks, thugs, cheating spouses and the suicidal. Witness the rescue of a stray dog or stray human. Watch drivers fall in love with the wrong person, or the right one. Experience a good passenger, or a bad one. Find an excellent driver, or a heartless one. The stories of joy and pain are inspired by real events and conversations with drivers.

Directions provides a fascinating look inside Bulgarian life as well as the human heart. The camera work was done pretty much all at once and was handed from one car to another, which adds urgency to each scene and heightens the tension. "This required lots of rehearsals," said the director at the Toronto International Film Festival. He maintains to be an optimist at heart, because "the others have left Bulgaria." One aim of the film is to "provoke discussion, which is the first step for a clear view of reality." The film is authentic and gripping. It flows well from one scene to the next, like you really have a seat in each of the cabs. There are great twists and turns as the film goes in different directions. The film first surfaced at Cannes.

A mixture of sad and funny thrown into the (very) bleak reality of Bulgarian life in Sofia. We see the life in the city through the eyes of the taxi drivers and the Passengers where each character brings something different to the mix. The range of people varies so we get to see this reality from different angles.

The direction and the actors are good and desptie the different, seemingly unconnected stories, there is a general feel of closure.

Not all the stories are even in their quality and the ballance of optimism and pessimism leans clearly towards the latter making it a harder watch. I also didn't agree with some of the points made by the director where singular occurrences of unjustice were the exclusive reason for a tragic effect. People have heart attack as a consequence of a stressfull office work. Should we blame the (horrible) boss or the person himself that gave too much for the work? However, this doesn't make the boss any better and in Directions these are sleazy, worst kind of people, that the director has shown well.

To sum it up, Directions is a good movie that show the hard life of ordinary people.

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I saw an exceptional film in 2017 - Directions/Posoki, an ensemble drama from Bulgaria, presenting Sofia at night as seen by its taxi drivers, complete with tawdry display windows, ubiquitous pawn shops, children descending into prostitution and pensioners living in abject poverty. Just for the record, it's a laugh-out-loud comedy, and most amazing of all, five of the six presented stories are based on real events, while the final one is an adaptation of a work by Anton Chekhov.

Bulgaria, as portrayed in Directions, is a land which remains optimistic against all odds, for all the pessimists and realists have left long ago. A land where there are only two directions to take: Sofia Airport Terminal 1 or Sofia Airport Terminal 2. A land which has been left behind by God, along with one-third of the population.

The director, Stephen Komandarev, came to the screening I attended in Luxembourg, and was just as talkative as in 2014 when he presented his previous film, The Judgement, at the Warsaw Film Festival. I asked him whether he had been influenced by either Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch or Taxi by Jafar Panahi, and he said that his main influence was rather Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, as well as various works by the Dardenne brothers. A very good influence to have, if you ask me...

This film is a fantastic work of art. Go see it.

Very interesting and realistic movie.Thank you!This is so eastern europish 1/1.