12:08 East of Bucharest

12:08 East of Bucharest
by Corneliu Porumboiu

12:08 East of Bucharest
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Actor: Ion Sapdaru, Lucian Iftime, Mircea Andreescu, Mirela Cioaba, Teodor Corban
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Romanian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tartan Video

Movie Reviews of 12:08 East of Bucharest

Movie Review: The cover of this DVD screamed HILARIOUS!
Summary: 2 Stars

Well, it lied. I'm not sure what was supposed to be funny. I was neither laughing out loud, happily bemused, or gently tickled. Which of these characters is comic? The alcoholic professor who borrows money everywhere and lacks a spine? The cantankerous old man who has lost a dearly loved wife? The talk show host who cannot get either his guests or staff to cooperate as he attempts to build a TV station in some small town? While there could have been a human comedy here, that isn't what I saw.

These are small people, who once grappled with great events. And while the premise sounded promising, the results were far short. Was the professor actually at the square that day? I don't know. But it seems as if his memory is fueled by alcohol and regret. Who knows? Does it matter? Did the old man participate? After the fact, when others came streaming out to celebrate the overthrow of Communism. Someone else did the work; they were hangers-on and bystanders, like most of us. And maybe they wish they weren't. Courage, especially in Communist countries, was, and is, a rare commodity for a reason--the brave often ended up dead.

Post Communist Romania does not look like a happy place. The film is gray and grimy. The houses are squalid. The streets are empty. Everything looks cheap, shabby, and crowded. And then, at the end, the snow starts coming down, and for a day at least, the world will look to be a lovely place. But the overt symbolism of the lights going off and coming on was a little heavy handed, with too much time spent watching those lights. Poignant, maybe. But not hilarious.

So, if the theme of this movie is that people like to remember themselves more heroically than they actually were, well, then I guess that's true. Not a lot there, though the material was available, and this small film about small people never really generated the traction necessary for me to care.

Summary of 12:08 East of Bucharest

Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 10/09/2007 Run time: 89 minutes

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