bobbygmt

There rarely comes a film that so pulls my strings, on every level, that I do not want it to ever end.

If you are a fan of exceptional directorial skill, and if you are fan of unsurpassed acting excellence in every single scene, this film is for you.

If you are a fan of intelligent, provoking and often gruesomly funny dialogue, this film is as yet unsurpassed, in my viewing experience over the last half century.

And if you prefer your cinema not splayed and bloated with platitudes ad nauseam over 10, 20 or 130 episodes, then you will find the entire 138 minutes of this film inimitable.

I hope you enjoy it.

What a dire spectacle this was! The film succeeds in providing a glimpse into the grotesque Bulgarian reality of today. Ignorance, crude behaviour and manners, dishonesty and utter lack of empathy pervade every aspect of life; throughout the whole film you will not hear the words "please" or "thank you", as if they have been erased from the language. Harking back to the inherited values from 50 years of the "Socialist paradise" and thrown into acute focus, you see the disinterested police force, which nevertheless doesn't fail to be brutish, the corrupt doctors who defraud the health system, the unscrupulous new age mystic charlatans praying on the poor, the brainless "cultural workers" of the socialist age, the incompetent new "professionals" who can't turn in a piece of quality work....all this is convincingly bound together through the incessant lies of the son and the imbecilic delusions of the father. Cinematically, the film is sound, with good all round performances and unsparing cinematography, but as a Bulgarian myself I wish I had not seen it; it disheartens you so!

Oh my, oh my.....what a lot of crock that was! Tarantino-shmarantino...never was so much dull and pointelss drivel written by so lauded a fake "auteur". I read all the 1-star reviews here, I looked at the overall 8-rating and I thought this must be a case of see-for-myself, what with being open-minded and having enjoyed Django Unchained and Pulp Fiction in the past. So I bought a ticket....and when I finished my popcorn and coke, having watched 40 minutes of mindless dialogue I promptly got up and walked out of the theatre. But here is the good news: YOU do not need to be as silly as me! If you fancy popcorn and coke, just buy the stuff, take it to a bench in the park and listen to the birds sing :))