The new(ish) wealth of film coming out of Romania is that it (at least from what we have seen) is smart, consistent and has that...thing....whatever it is that makes it unmistakably Romanian. The three films we have seen from there lately are darkly funny. Some more dark and some more funny, but they all seem to point to a national interest in the plodding, hard parts of life. They also like to make fun of people. This is good.
This movie is about a real moment in Romanian history that was fraught with uncertainty, violence and sadness, but also, movement, excitement and change. We get glimpses of all of this as we follow a small platoon of Militia soldiers through the night of December 22, 1989. Not knowing who or what they are fighting for or protecting, they choose to look for their AWOL team member who, out of excitement, defected to the revolutionaries.
Not for everyone, but certainly my kind of movie.
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