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Bogdan George ApetriOperatőr:
Oleg MutuSzereplők:
Bogdan Farcaș, Dragoș Dumitru, Vasile Muraru, Emanuel Pârvu, Olimpia Malai, Ion Bechet, Ovidiu Crisan, Kira Hagi, Valentin Popescu, Ioana BugarinTartalmak(1)
A feszült, sodró lendületű krimi egy észak-romániai kisvárosban játszódik. Florin Iespas rendőrnyomozó a növekvő adósságai és kusza magánélete ellenére elhatározza, hogy pontot tesz egy nehéz ügy végére, amely úgy tűnik, senkit sem érdekel. Főnöke parancsba adja, hogy ejtse az ügyet, de erre képtelen, és a saját szakállára folytatja a nyomozást. Hamarosan komoly nyomokra bukkan, amelyek két hotelben kiütött, halálesetekkel járó tűzesetekhez vezetik el. Florin Banelt gyanúsítj, a roma származású biztonsági őrt, ám a fiatal férfi mindent tagad. Florin nyomozását a rendőrfőnök sem támogatja, kollégái is bizalmatlanok vele szemben és saját belső démonai is gyötrik. Ilyen állapotban dolgoz ki egy szövevényes tervet, ám rasszista gondolatai egyre nagyobb hangsúlyt kapnak, mint a bizonyítékok. (Cinemax)
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I wouldn't even mind the slower pace of Unknown if the main character of the story wasn't so terribly unlikeable, either in his behavior, habits or appearance. At least the plot is good and quite interestingly constructed. However, I can't shake the impression that the movie only skims the surface. What about the initial storyline about the two hotel fires that fizzled out into nothing? And some other topics raised remained unresolved or were only hinted at. (55%)
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A variation on film noir in the Romanian New Wave mode, so it's incredibly slow (but not melancholy), visually ugly, and unfulfilling until its finale, while still trying to both preserve and paraphrase the rules of the genre. The problem for many may be that we don't actually know the purpose of any of the scenes until the end of the film, and they can't even be enjoyed individually as they are very procedural and inelegantly shot, making them impossible to succumb to visually. When it clicks at the end, each scene suddenly makes sense and it's just fun to think about and realize the roles of each situation in the story (the piano playing, the gas station), but again, there's no need to celebrate the script because it's not that clever, it's just written in reverse. But for the patient quiet of the forest solitude, it's actually quite an appealing twist on the crime genre that I somehow strangely enjoyed watching.
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