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RABBIT HOLE

STARRING:Nicole Kidman » Aaron Eckhart» Dianne Wiest» Miles Teller» Sandra Oh

DIRECTOR:» John Cameron Mitchell

DURATION:» 91 minutes

PREMIERE: » 10-02-11



LINKS:OFFICIAL SITE OF THE MOVIE: http://www.rabbitholefilm.com/index.html
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Rabbit+Hole

 Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) is a happily married couple. The perfect their world collapses once and for all o stroke when their son, Danny, killed by a car. The Becca, a former executive at a large company abandoned its position to devote himself to her family, trying to redefine its existence into the surreal atmosphere that make the well-meaning relatives and friends. The experiences of Becca, painful, embarrassing, funny, the push to find solace in a peculiar relationship with a strange young comic book creator, the Jason, the driver who killed her son. At the same time, the Howie immersed in the past and seek refuge in another woman who offers him what can not his wife.

The return of the talented American John Cameron Mitchell could not have gone unnoticed. We are talking about two separate director and controversial - for some - movies, beloved «Hedwig and The Angry Inch» and sexy «Shortbus». After four years of absence, surprised the movie audience, fans and otherwise, selecting a family drama based on the homonymous work of winning Pulitzer David Lindsay-Abaire and production of own Nicole Kidman. Given the somewhat underground filmography in which we have been accustomed in the past, it is impossible not to wonder that here in this film, watch the heartbreaking story - cliche a couple who lost their child and trying to recover.

Lamentation, obsession, anger and need for atonement are essential components of any drama that respects himself and «Rabbit Hole» all-encompassing. The Becca is trapped in a cocoon of denial and introspection, while Howie seems to be making genuine efforts to restore life to normal levels. But outbreaks of Becca in each direction (towards God, his mother and sister, neighbors and himself Howie), coupled with the apparent calm Howie dynamite atmosphere and everyone seeking peace in different people.

The curiosity with «Rabbit Hole» is that it remains a classic, banal display of these emotions, leading protagonists with mathematical precision in the chaos and existential impasse, but instead varies with telling realism, sometimes with humor, the way followed the couple to cope with loss, find the lost balance and eventually led to the desired clearance. And such an approach is undoubtedly interesting. However, some are running out of any originality of the project.

Having become accustomed to Nicole Kidman in such roles is not surprising that a good interpretation, which brought her again uncle Oscar, but not shocking. The Aaron Eckhart, manages to fulfill the role of agony than loving husband, although at times it seems that the interpretation is somewhat more sophisticated than necessary.

The direction of Mitchell is simple. Idealizations and filming without emotional blackmail, disassociating from the exuberant style he described in previous works, but to the extent that the viewer might be tired and not able to identify with the characters, which is essential for a complete family drama.

This course is «Rabbit Hole»: a simple film (in any way simplistic), which captures realistically the grief resulting from the loss of a loved one and the painful process of recovery. Without melodrama, but without his writing peak. With everything that implies.

IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE

STARRING: » George Pistereanu» Ada Condeescu» Mihai Constantin» Clara Voda» Laurentiu Banescu

DIRECTOR: » Florin Serban


DURATION:91 minutes

PREMIERE:10/2/2011

LINKS: http://vreausafluier.ro/ 
              http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590024/

Silviu is only 18 years old. Over the past 4 years is incarcerated in the Juvenile Detention Center, while the remaining five days only to be released. The five days but they look like an endless nightmare, when his mother appears after an absence of years to get together in Italy, the little brother, whose Silviu has grown like a son. Similarly, the life Silviu, displayed Ana, a beautiful his age working as a social worker. With emotions overwhelm him and time flowing backwards, the Silviu gradually driven to extremes ...


For 5 years a number of Romanian filmmakers turning to a dynamite film after another, setting up a current which some call the Romanian "new wave". Having grown most under the Ceausescu regime, make films in a transitional period for the country, which tries to smoothly integrate into the European Union, without having been completely eliminated, apparently the remains of a hardcore police state. Therefore a common element of their films is a system (physical and mental) depression in the context of which the heroes are asked to solve the problem presented before them - which is a key driver of the plot. The key thing is that the themes are not confined within the borders of the Romanian territory, but on a wider audience outside of them.

In «If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle» our hero, the 18 year old Silviu, spends his last days in a juvenile penitentiary, a prison, where correction is synonymous with ... sentencing. We do not know what he has done and is there is probably a bad thing, but the gentle nature and behavior of softly exclude the possibility that something very bad. In each case there is to be reformed to take that a new system of knowledge and values from that led him to offend, to 'humanised' and be reintegrated into society.

Through interaction with the staff of reform school and the other inmates, the Silviu educated. Viewing minor offenses punished disproportionately, in a particularly brutal. She learns that kindness is a weakness. He learns that to get what you want, even if it is entitled, even if it's something small and insignificant, should demands with violence. He learns that the dignity of the other is a concept that circumvented forward to meeting the personal desire. And so, when forced by circumstances to move from inaction to action, 'reformed' anymore, plays what he learned. Obviously he wants to reach the Florin Serban, however the front view is sacrificing something of consistency and plausibility of his character in the first stage of the film in a second, since the latter is set up entirely on the person Sylviu , the camera follows him constantly.

The cinema Serban does not have the elaborate frame of Porumboiu, or the muffled intensity Mungiu, and some irregularities in some editing options routiniarikes filming scenes key to the evolution of the film, working against it. But it is a simple movie, penetrating and very interesting, a worthy representative of contemporary Romanian cinema - although, we repeat, not the highest quality. And closes with a song Free range, so that sidled up to the Le-Fri and interpret the Greek to the distinctive voice and his normal activity, the tracks will now sigh in winter and Mykonos in the summer. What more is the Kiamos with 'whistled and Expired' say?