Centers around a family gathering on the anniversary of a patriarch's recent death.
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★★★★★
The long demanding exhausting movie is permeated with Eastern European scent. The legacy of the poor relatives and backyards of Europe is recognisable in every excruciating detail for those who had grown up there. Smallish crowded kitchens with dilapidated cab...
★★★★★
Throughout history, the seventh art, with its hundred-year history, has seen many twists and turns, it has been taken from various small cultural and artistic movements until a large number of them carry the history of cinema on their shoulders, various compan...
★★★★★
Family drama has never portrayed this good. You are invited into this family's house during the aftermath of a funeral in the wintertime. It gets very intense.
★★★★★
This is definitely a carefully crafted movie by a gifted director.
The result is disappointing though: way too long.
I enjoyed the fact that it captures real conflicts and emotions.
Could have done that in half the time though.
Good film for movies snobs.
★★★★★
With a delay of three years I managed to see Cristi Puiu's 'Sieranevada', a film that I had read and heard much about. Three years are certainly not enough for a 'historical' perspective but they are enough to better place the film in the context of what happe...
