Restul e tacere (2007)

Réalisateur:

Nae Caranfil

Scénariste:

Nae Caranfil (writer)

Release Date:

7 mars 2008 (Romania)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame

Plot:

In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made...

Plot Keywords:

Shakespeare's Hamlet | Art | Son Against Father | Portrait Painting | Cinema

Avis des utilisateurs:

Falsity at Its Best

Ensemble

Marius Florea Vizante	...	Grig
Ovidiu Niculescu	...	Leon
Mirela Zeta	...	Emilia
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Vasile Albinet	...	Capitan dorobanti
Radu Banzaru	...	Maior Bujor
Silviu Biris	...	Raoul
Constantin Dita
Sandu Mihai Gruia	...	Iancu
Alexandru Hasnas	...	Carol I
Razvan Hîncu	...	Laertes
Marcel Horobet
Nicu Mihoc	...	Anton V.
Dan Nanoveanu	...	Nea Gusi
Gavril Patru	...	Cameramanul
Valentin Popescu	...	Catargiu
Gabriel Spahiu	...	Un domn bizar
Samuel Tastet	...	Raymond Duffin
Vlad Zamfirescu	...	Nutu Ferefide

Autre(s) titre(s) :

The Rest Is Silence (International: English title)

Durée:

145 min

Pays:

Romania

Langue:

Roumain | Français | Allemand

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Domino Film

Guillemet:

Carol I: A "director"...?... So what the hell does this child do?
Grig: Me, I reign, Sire!

Falsity at Its Best

Love films. Always have, always will. Would like to love Romanian films too, because it just feels good to hear a film unfold in my very own language. But things are as they are and I can't make them any different. All I can try is change my "optic" of things, which I can't seem to do in this particular case. Some films sway you to, others don't. It's just as simple as that.

In Caranfil's style, "Restul e tacere" is a jolly new film about film, but also about jolly old Romania and the people inhabiting it. It looks good and is decently acted, as a young protagonist tries to make a film about the Romanian battle of independence, against the Turks, which leads him on a road of enlightenment about the people of that world. A lot of character types pop up in this morally vile Romania which bear a lot of criticism to the contemporary one as well.

What disappoints me is that subtlety is often sacrificed for clarity, with an ending so full of itself that it just undermines many of the things said and done along the way. It is undeniable that the film has moments of poignant humor and all in all manages to sketch a very true form of the ill society which rules the land, now and then, but it isn't "round" enough to be placed on the shelf it wishes to place itself.

I may be overly harsh about Caranfil's latest effort, so I do not wish to ignore the underlying themes and motifs he ties in with the story, the allegorical parallels of other stages of the world, some the great single elements which are part of the film, but it isn't enough - as far as I'm concerned - to be really smart about the things you say, if the way you say doesn't fit.