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Have you ever been in theather watching a stage play and just been waiting for the pause so you could leave?

Here, you can quit anytime, because this stage play has been recorded and sold as a movie.

It took me seven days and eleven attempts to watch this to the end. I did it because the archive shots were great. And because the story would have been interesting.

Howabout exiting?

No.

The biggest challenge was not to fall asleep while watching. The second was not to chuckle at parts that were meant to be dramatic.

The actors' work was to read the script like an elementary school student facing the camera. No acting at all, on purpose.

I've seen this type of stage style. This has been a trend and was meant to be hip in some contemporary German, Polish, and Eastern eu dramas in the mid-2000s.

And even back then, at least half of the audience gave up and went home in the middle.

This is a lowercase movie in so many ways. No writing, just archives, DJ-ed in a wannabe-interesting order. Choking on actors' play, making it not artistic but ridiculous. The biggest effort was to create the set.

It is a shock that the director, after "Aferim!", a truly great movie, came out with this failure.

Two star for the archive shots, and one for the plot and for the poor guy.

Let's hope this is just a dead track, and not a dead end.