Discuss! It was also released in the United States under the abridged titles East of Bucharest and 12:08 Bucharest. All of the exterior shots emphasise the drab modernity, in grainy near-monochrome. (By the way, every member of the secret service said they were on holiday, just like Bejan). Catalin Paraschiv Corneliu Porumboiu. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? For his talk show this December 22nd he has opted to pose the question was there a revolution in THIS small town BEFORE 12:08 on this day in 1989. Well-done Mr. Porumboiu
I should give you a ten, for proving to our fellow -constantly complaining- European fellows that one can make a good film with just a good scenario and without billions of Euros
I have to take away one point because only Almodovar, out of the leaving ones deserves 10, and a second point because,unfortunately your beautiful scenario would not easily strike audiences unfamiliar with the average Romanian. 4 out of 5 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? Living a sordid life can be accepted as normal, and can made be fun of - and, in the end, what else is left to do? For the first two thirds of the movie. Was this review helpful? The people themselves ask if anything has changed. 9 out of 11 found this helpful. Also, the images of women doing the house work and not men, like: oh, here are your ironed clothes for the show and your food, very typical. Chen The maturity and complexity of the cinema shown by Corneliu Prumboiu in this first film is amazing. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Romanian: A fost sau n-a fost? The film premiered today 2-6-06 at Cluj 5th International Film Festival. 8 out of 9 found this helpful. In a local TV station, a debate is initiated. Don quixotic gestures and illusions like warm refuges , strange games and paper heroic values, disillusions and questions without answers. The teacher had debts and alcohol problems, the older man led a pretty quiet boring life in his flat. I had no idea what this movie will be about when I went to see it. It is a nice movie to watch that discuss the idea of the 1989 revolution in a small town east of Bucharest. This is not a movie about the revolution, it's a movie about life. Shop 12:08 East of Bucharest [DVD] [2006] at Best Buy. 18 out of 32 found this helpful. Acting is superb in most cases, and images of dusk and dawn in the freezing Romanian winter - so gray, so hard - are pure poetry. 22 out of 45 found this helpful. You get hints that you have to analyze to understand the meaning of the movie. I would like to see more of the process of Romanian self-reflection.
Annemarie Chertic A wonderfully quirky movie, rooted in the deep inner conflict experienced by many people who have to re-conciliate their Communist-era mentalities with(in) a post-Communist society. Was this review helpful? This film is set in a small Romanian city on December 22, 2005, the 16th anniversary of the downfall of the repressive communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, which technically occurred at 12:08, just after noon, on the same date in 1989.
Emanoil Piscoci Judging by The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu and Corneliu Porumboiu's debut feature 12:08 East Of Bucharest (not to mention the reports from Cannes about this year's Palme D'or-winning 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days), Romanian cinema is on a roll, led by warmly naturalistic films that emphasize character and performance over formal mastery. 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST deserves all the accolades awarded it at Cannes, and Corneliu Porumboiu's amusing, entertaining and important film is a great window into the questions of the "Romanian Revolution". 20 out of 23 found this helpful. Then I started understanding it's so much more. 3 out of 5 found this helpful. Enter your location to see which At first, things were going a bit slow, although there was some character development. The story introduces all these characters, giving them no obvious interconnection, until they are dropped into the TV studio with the added pressures of real time and occasional phone-in callers. Was this review helpful? 6 out of 8 found this helpful.
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