| |
|
SOME
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS:
VARIETY The International Entertainment Weekly
30 sept. 1991
ROMANIAN FEST UNDEVA IN EST (SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST) (ROMANIAN)
This well-scripted, handsome film is an eloquent and entertaining
argument against communism that will be a big help in putting
Romania on the film industry map. Fine acting and a wealth of
richly developed minor characters and subplots give the pic strength.
A strong plus is a coherent story-line that is straight-forward
and accessible, rare among central European pics.
Rebecca Lieb
VARIETY The International Entertainment Weekly
6 march 1994
A multifaceted loom at present- day Romania through a family progressively
torn apart by social and economic tensions. "Look forward in
Anger" is well worth a look by specialized webs. Strongly scripted,
consistently interesting pic was warmly received at its screenings
in the Berlin fest's Panorama section.
Derek Elley
WASTELAND
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER) But what stay
with you most are the images of life in this ravaged country: going
outside to get water from a tap beside an overflowing skip: bread
queues: wrecked boats abandoned on the river; and the waste - the
human waste. The family breakdown borders on the melodramatic, but
the magnitude of the pressures on the Romanian people is effectively
conveyed. To see a country, so soon after a popular, heroic revolution,
sliding towards, such an abyss can only leave you gutted.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications
Limited
Garry Williams
WASTELAND
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER) Margineanu's style
is simple: long takes, a camera that only moves when the actors
do, natural settings, natural light. But the simplicity conceals
his art: by declining to pass judgment, he refuses to cheapen the
events that he is filming, or suggest that they could have any simple
resolution. The exposition, too, is masterly: Margineanu unobtrusively
supplies information while drawing the audience inexorably in. He's
also blessed with a miraculous cast, and has the sense to leave
them alone when they can do the job better than he can.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications
Limited
Daniel Denman
WASTELAND
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER) If it
was Nicolae Margineanu's intention in "Look Forward in Anger"
to evoke the grim, fear-ridden urban Romania that is Ceausescu's
legacy, then on a purely objective level he has succeeded.
MK International Limited and MFS
Communications Limited Roland Anderson British Premiere
Sunday, 17 July 1994
DOOM AND GLOOM
"Buy some flowers for those who died for us in the revolution",
shouts one elderly street-trader. It is this attitude of despair
and hopelessness which sums up Nicolae MargineanuÕs Look
Forward in Anger. Although dark and depressing in mood, the filmÕs
realistic setting and thought-provoking social comment fully achieve
the directorÕs aim of depiche legacy of communism and the
failure of democracy in contemporary Romania.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications
Limited
Jaine Hilston |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
