Kirpianuscus it is new demonstration about values and rules and game of influence from the East. a dark portrait of Romania, more complex than it seems be at the first sigh, impressive, powerful and touching. a mother protecting her son. without any price. an accident. and a poor family. and examples of admirable acting. from Romanian realities, nothing surprising. the family remains a fortress. many mothers , in the situation of Cornelia , are adepts of the same solutions. and this is the motif for discover this film. for the splendid job of Luminița Gheorghiu. for Bogdan Dumitrache as Barbu. for the levels of a crisis. and for the clash between two social circles. the basic virtue of the film - it has one of the most inspired ends.

Lee Eisenberg The Romanian New Wave continues with Călin Peter Netzer's "Poziția copilului" ("Child's Pose" in English). Luminița Gheorghiu plays an affluent woman whose son accidentally kills a boy in a traffic accident. The movie looks at a number of topics: corruption, emotional manipulation and parent-child relationships. All of these add up to a general focus on the state of affairs in Romania, as the woman seeks to pull strings to get her son a lenient prosecution, and tries to force the victim's family to forgive her son.One of the most effective lines is "What parents can't accomplish they achieve through their children." One of the most obvious examples is shows like "American Idol". But beyond that, we see the woman chide her son for his unwillingness to grow up, even though she kept an overly tight leash on him most of his life.All in all I recommend the movie. Shot in a naturalistic style, it hits you hard. I hope that Romania turns out more of these.

Ersbel Oraph Pain and shame is the short answer. Pain for wasting time. Shame for the FIPRESCI and Golden Bear jury. This was supposed to be the story that some people guessed from the poster and the small synopsis. But the story is nowhere to be found. You get a woman (Luminita Gheorghiu) talking to another woman about a third. Than you get two more scenes, this time with lots of extras that should express what? None of the nomenklatura princelings from the credits has any idea. Only than the movie starts. Starts into a bad provincial play. Each character is like a mechanical puppet. Apart from some tears in the end, the lines are delivered flat. And you feel the moment the director makes the magical sign to power on the mechanical puppets. You get the police station. Outdoors. A man is calm. The blond old women deliver their lines with obvious bore. Like Frankenstein awaken the man becomes agitated. He even goes to his car to get a baseball bat. Next scene, same time. Indoors. The same man is docile.A lot of unused characters. A lot of pointless scenes. Yet NO STORY. Sure, Romanians seem to identify the story with local political circus. But how about the people who can't play their own imagined story when the trigger stimulus kicks in? There is no change. The characters remain flat all the way. The music is bad. The contrast in volume is disturbing. And it all ends with an Italian song??? The camera is awful. Maybe it's a subtle irony: the killer does not drink, but the camera operator does. The frame bounces and swirls around with no clear purpose. To make things worse there are erratic zooms too. Why? It's a mystery.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Dubh I rather enjoyed this movie, which explores in a realistic way the effects of a possessive and manipulative mother on her son. The unhealthy relationship is the cornerstone on which many (bad) things are built: corruption, lies and so on. Even if it has strong social themes, the movie focuses on the dark side of familiar relationships, when they combine with greed and the desire to "live" through one's own children. These are classical themes, but they are told in a very interesting way, with a nervous movement of the camera that seems to point to the uneasiness of the situation. In my opinion, only two scenes (Cornelia in Barbu's house, the opera scene) are a bit too long: the rest has good rhythm and the end is almost perfect. One brief mention for the Italian translation of the title: "Il caso Kerenes" (The Kerenes case) is really bad. "Child's pose", besides being faithful to the original Romanian title, describes the movie much better.