Review by linistea

The New Year that never came, one of the best movie about communist Romania, and also a kind of Christmas movie. It captured so well the atmosphere of those times. I remember the fear, the paranoia, the forced lies. The movie was so powerful that it provoked vivid dreams about the past, and flashbacks: the objects, the soundscapes, the type of conversations, everything was so familiar, to the point of being overwhelming. And what I remember the most is the lack of joy. And the joy, like the New Year, never came. After years of corrupted governments, millions of Romanians are ready to vote again for a totalitarian regime. The return to the familiar, the trauma repetition.