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The Death of Mr Lazarescu
Remedial Folk
When an ageing father is taken ill in his Romanian tower block a set of social security nets try to catch his fall.
'But no chemicals'
There's no soundscape to carry you through this film. You play the emotional detective as long takes absorb the chattel of one man's life.
Its pot-boiler approach churns intriguing ingredients to the surface at first, then enters the dyspeptic world of the hospitals. Be prepared for dourness, power games, and a care community stretched to the max. Caustic humour and a web of catching hands try to stand our protagonist on his feet. Little exchanges illuminate long meetings. People get reduced to notes and anecdotes, but personalities survive in this tale.
Disclosure: I missed the first ten minutes of this, and an annoying digibox update robbed me of another midway. But having worked fleetingly in medical professions, I can only gawp at the cast-wide verisimilitude on display.
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Remedial Folk
When an ageing father is taken ill in his Romanian tower block a set of social security nets try to catch his fall.
'But no chemicals'
There's no soundscape to carry you through this film. You play the emotional detective as long takes absorb the chattel of one man's life.
Its pot-boiler approach churns intriguing ingredients to the surface at first, then enters the dyspeptic world of the hospitals. Be prepared for dourness, power games, and a care community stretched to the max. Caustic humour and a web of catching hands try to stand our protagonist on his feet. Little exchanges illuminate long meetings. People get reduced to notes and anecdotes, but personalities survive in this tale.
Disclosure: I missed the first ten minutes of this, and an annoying digibox update robbed me of another midway. But having worked fleetingly in medical professions, I can only gawp at the cast-wide verisimilitude on display.
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