Home
| Search
| Now Playing
| News
| My Movies
| Games
| Boards
| Help
| US Movie Showtimes
| Top 250
| Register
| Recommendations
| Widgets
Box Office
| Index
| Trailers
| Jobs
|
IMDbPro.com - Free Trial
| IMDb Resume
Copyright © 1990-2008
IMDb.com, Inc.
Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.
An
company.
Advertise on IMDb.
License our content.
Quicklinks
Top Links
trailers and videosinterprètes et équipe techniqueanecdotesofficial sitesphrases célèbresOverview
infos principalesinfos complètesinterprètes et équipe techniquesociétés de productiontv scheduleRécompenses et critiques
avis des utilisateurscritiques externescritiques des forumsawardsnotes des utilisateursparents guidedans la lignéemessage boardSynopsis et citations
résuméplot synopsismots-clésrésumé du Amazon.comphrases célèbresCuriosités
anecdotesbêtisierinfos B.O.F.clins d'œil dans génériqueinfos sur d'autres versionsliens avec d'autres œuvresfoire aux questionsAutres infos
en ventebox office/businessdates de sortielieux de tournagecaractéristiques techniquesinfos laserdiscinfos DVDbibliographieNewsDeskMatériel publicitaire
accroches trailers and videos affiches photo galleryLiens externes
horaires dans les sallesofficial sitesdiversphotossound clipsvideo clipsIMDb user comments for
Restul e tacere (2007)
17 out of 21 people found the following comment useful :-
Caranfil strikes again..., 8 mars 2008
Author: marius_em de Iasi, Romania
È pericoloso sporgersi, Asphalt Tango, Filantropica... The ingredient are the same: lots of humor on a tragic background. 'Restul e tacere' has the same Caranfil style, and more... Without a doubt, his best work. It's a story about the making of the first Romanian movie in 1911, the age when Bucharest was still 'little Paris', and the national identity feelings were probably at the highest level of all times. Although as a Romanian i felt really close to this movie, i must say there is no over - nationalist propaganda, just a simple decent story with a little bit of history as background, telling us how talent met with business to do the "War of independence" film. The humor is great, the story is a must know, the acting is extraordinary, especially the two main characters (Leon Negrea played by Ovidiu Niculescu and Grigore Ursache played by Marius Florea Vizante), the music is right on cue, the 'little Paris' atmosphere is greatly recreated and the rest is silence...
12 out of 17 people found the following comment useful :-
A much better view, 6 mars 2008
Author: Raul G de Romania
The latest hits of Romanian cinematography are all movies which show Romania in gray tones. So far they've been successful and i really appreciate those movies but it's about time that a director does the normal thing, to change the pace of Romanian films a little. Through the magic of Nae Caramfil and the help of a consistent budget, we have a film good enough to compare with Hollywood productions and who still keeps his artistic integrity and doesn't fall into commercialism.
The script is brilliant and fearless, with cleaver lines and a language to suit the depicted times.
Marius Vizante has a great performance as a frustrated but proud young director, and Ovidiu Niculescu's unlikely (Niculescu having neither the age, neither the stature of Leon Negrescu) cast in the role of Leon proved to be a really good choice.
I sincerely believe that this movie will be a milestone in Romanian cinematography and i hope that many as good as this one will follow.
8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
...can you hear the silence ?, 23 mars 2008
Author: taifunu de Romania
just saw the movie. In a cinema theater. Sunday morning, only four people in the audience, myself included.
I'm blown away.
here, normally, I would have added only another sentence to this post - but the IMDb rules state a post must have a minimum 10 lines.
so I might write that this is not just a movie. It's a tribute to all movie makers, of all times. It's a tribute to all the people passionate enough with an idea to be able to follow it until the very end. A tribute to those few people that do not sell their soul, or their ideals. In a way, one might read it as Caranfil's manifesto.
but ignore all the above. Ignore all the comments. Just go see the movie. It speaks for itself better than anybody ever could.
the rest is silence.
5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
brilliant!, 16 mars 2008
Author: jazzzyro de Bucharest, Romania
An absolute masterpiece of Romanian cinematography and a solid quality picture. Its romantic and humorous atmosphere, its gorgeous reconstruction of Romanian belle epoque is fantastic (since that time, beginning of XX century, Bucharest was named 'Little Paris', due to many resemblances to the original city), the acting is impeccable and scenario is well-paced, humorous and inventive. The story is the making off of the making off of the Independence War that Romania, along with Russia took part against Otoman Empire in period 1877 - 1878. A must see picture, remarkable for the new spirit in Romanian cinematography.
3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Back to the glory days?, 10 mars 2008
Author: Kimi Raikkonen (natzy_future) de Romania
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
After 5 years of patience we have another film made by Nae Caranfil. In my opinion by far the best film director Romania has in this moment. If Filantropica represented a renascence for the Romanian Cinema now we know it was not an exception. I don't know if it is his strategy or simply the guys from the commission simply didn't want to finance him all these years, lets not forget that this films scenario was written like 20 years ago and only in 2007 it became reality. I have to admit that we are sick of seeing films about the "Golden Era" or directly made in the communist times. I don't mean 4,3 and 2 at all, that's a great film made by a great director but I want to see more films made about the great times of our country if not the inter-war period this story is placed perfectly before the First War or the Great War as they called it during and after it. And I don't mean maybe all of us all, I mean us, the young…the ones that heard all those criminal stories from our parents, of course its OK to see it on screen but where are those glory days of our Romanian Kingdom? Just seeing images that bring back to those times makes you feel different then seeing a secret service agent following you at night coming from a party a bit drunk and makes you see something else then the gray boxes and the House of People. The young Romanians need to take those times as an example. Of course it's a comedy after all, but all we know is how Romanians were driving all Dacia 1310 ( proudly ) hailing the "leader" and now after 1989 showing stories about the life then from another point of view, an objective one. Back to the film, the scene with the King is a very nice one, if all communist showed was the Morometii when the peasants were laughing at the royals ( romance by Marin Preda clearly influenced by the communists ) now we can actually see people calling him "Sir", I was really surprised by that scene ( probably at the Cotroceni Palace ) maybe just because of rarity of such scenes with important leaders of our past. Even though its still a comedy it tries to represent a very important part of our history. The war for Independence against the Otoman Empire strongly supported by a leader ( Carol I ) witch wasn't even Romanian, he was part of the Royal European family but dedicated his life to this country like nobody else of Romanian blood did in the last century. The young director who wants to do something new rather then theater is fighting his father who was a well know theater director who didn't accept his son to do "dirty business". It also has a very important word to say with our relation with Western Europe, we wanted to be in the same step with them, we didn't want to completely ignore what happens in Paris and the thing the young gun ( only 19 ) starts something like this shows the new generation is responsible even now, after 1989, to bring this country back to its glory days.
Movie in movie, 7 juillet 2008
Author: simonasidorin de Romania
Well first of all I like the title : it is very suggestive , very theatrical . This movie is a needed change of rhythm in the Romanian cinema because it is depicting an episode of pioneering cinema in Romania . The year is 1912 but INDEPENDENCE WAR do not forget : is not the very first Romanian movie , maybe it is the first historical movie , even from the historical point of view the real UNION came in 1918 with Basarabia and Transilvania joining Valahia and Moldova ...but we are getting too much into national history .That era depicted in film is when Bucharest was opening more to European influences and especially french culture , it later became LITTLE Paris and it was not an exaggeration at all. French was spoken by aristocrats , intellectuals , artists and even common people. Of course the movie is got a lot of comic moments , we are Romanians N'EST CE PAS ? Do not forget also that haughty people they despised cinema , they preferred theater . I know they we're right but , let's get over it . Cinema was incredible cheap , even in those days , it was a sort of entertainment for low social classes , for the mob . But of course in time people they changed up minds , it is to admire the passion the people involved in this project they sacrifice to see their dream come true . Also it is showing us how VOLATILE and transient the films are ......they burn so easily .I enjoyed watching this movie , and is a nice feeling to know that they are still people who cares about CINEMA .
6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Falsity at Its Best, 27 mars 2008
Author: FcPoliFan de Timisoara, Romania
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.
Add another comment
Related Links