Azucena

I have seen this movie at a preview in Los Angeles in july 2004. This movie is by far the worst Romanian film I have ever seen. It has no interesting idea, a lot of senseless nudity (some people might enjoy that) and it lacks a script-writer (the director is trying to pull a double stunt here). The actors are quite plain and the dialogue is completely sterile. Many story plans are started in the movie, but they turn out to be left hanging in the air, without any explanation, and they are irrelevant to the main "story" line.

The director has made some films during the communist era (before 1989). I think that his age turns him towards sex, vulgarity and irrelevant ideas.

Everything was so ridiculously dumb, that at some moment I was overcame by an access of sick laugh that couldn't stop anymore... In truth, Mircea Muresan was never any luminary of Romanian cinema (except one single timid spark of sincerity, with his debut movie, "Rascoala"), but at old age he definitely lost any touch with reality. The (vaguely) human beings in this images series are not only shallow, not only false, but positively (although "negatively" would be a better fit term) repulsive in their noisy incoherence and frivolous obscenity. The photography reaches the highest peaks of the Kitsch (and non-professionalism: bad lighting, messy sharff, awkward framing), and the sound-track is plainly a never-ending cacophony. Thank God, although it's not the first Romanian "movie" of such a shameful level, it's definitely one of the last. We are waking up.

Before any comment you have to see this film. Is difficult, because it have a poor distribution, no DVD or other possibility to have an impression. First of all I was interested in the love story between a Romanian officer and a gypsy girl, a rich one, but an impossible love because the tribal traditions of the Gypsies immigrated in Europe from India 1000 years ago...There are many problems in the film, as the illegal immigration from the same far east. I see some critics by internet and I was disappointed. Some Madames classified the film as "pornography". I see the love encounters sexy but not at all on the other side of normality. The actresses are beautiful...

P.T.