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This has GREAT potential

posted 13 years ago by kxd2000
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Caranfil is a fantastic director and storyteller. Just watch Filantropica, Asphalt Tango, and The Rest is Silence, in that order. Farmiga is an Oscar Nominee and Mark Strong looks like a young Andy Garcia and he seemed to do ok as Lord Blackwood in the Downey Jr. Serlock Holmes. The storyline sounds good. For once, not another Romanian movie about how *beep* communism was, as if anyone needs reminders, but rather an action/thriller a la The Bank Job with communism as a backdrop. Should be great!

[–] pedrok-o 12 years ago

As long as the movie doesn't fall under massive plot-holes and the directing is acceptable...yes, this can be one hell of a ride!

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[–] mskaityw 12 years ago

Anyone know if this is bbc or if it will be in theaters?

[–] ChristianWoolf 12 years ago

It has nothing to do with BBC...I think they didn't find a distributor yet.

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[–] fenugreek 11 years ago

Latest word is that it will be released towards the end of this year.

[–] diane_berger 10 years ago

Now that it has already been released, I need to admit that your intuition and feel about this movie are perfectly matched by what has come out. This is a great movie that I would highly recommend: great directing, wonderful performances, beautiful images, very good script, impeccable pacing/rythm. Everything shows perfect craftmanship to such an extent in this movie that I can hardly find the words to describe it. Wonderful surprise to all movie lovers that didn't know this director (Nae Caranfil), mostly due to the fact that he is from a country that is less credited in terms of cinematographic value or history. Like Cristian Mungiu, the winnner of Cannes, I believe he is a great director that manages to create films in perfect finesse, doubled by such realism that pertains only to the masters of film making.

[–] cableaddict 9 years ago

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"This is a great movie that I would highly recommend: great directing, wonderful performances, beautiful images, very good script, impeccable pacing/rythm. Everything shows perfect craftmanship to such an extent in this movie that I can hardly find the words to describe it. "

Good lord, woman, if you're going to be a shill for the movie, at least make it sound a little more realistic.

[–] diane_berger 9 years ago

Can somebody praise a movie without being suspected of doing some sort of cheap propaganda?!
I simply liked it very much. You can disagree with me, I don't pretend by any means to be the detainer of the absolute truth in terms of movie criticism. I am no movie critic, so that is my opinion as a common, ordinary movie viewer. I may be wrong, seen from somebody else's perspective and we can agree to disagree. Isn't that what democracy is all about?!

[–] benman46 8 years ago

It's the way you describe it that is a bit of a giveaway, not in a way a common, ordinary movie viewer would ever describe it.

[–] diane_berger 8 years ago

Believe what you want to believe, anyway I couldn't convince you of the opposite if you don't want it... It's either the truth or what we want to believe ;-)

[–] floyd-52 8 years ago

Priceless.

[–] WildCotton 8 years ago

Diane Berger, what role did you have in this movie's production? Or were you perhaps you have a relative or friend that was an extra...

Regardless, the other poster is correct. Your description of the movie was full of bombastic hyperbole.