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One Floor Below(Un etaj mai jos)

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Romania, France, Sweden · 2015
1h 33m
Director Radu Muntean
Starring Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu, Oxana Moravec, Ionut Bora
Genre Drama

After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.

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CineVue by Ben Nicholson

To suggest that One Floor Below operates at a simmer would be to exaggerate the level of heat being applied to the pot. This is one that Muntean is happy to let bubble intermittently, cranking the tension around on a scarcely-moving winch.

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Variety by Jay Weissberg

Like a pot set to bubble only every few seconds, the drama is tightly measured to ensure a controlled level of tension that remains discreetly constant, nicely melding with Muntean’s skilled construction of three-dimensional bourgeois life.

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The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

Muntean is so careful to avoid any whisper of contrivance or manipulation that he doesn't even land on any particular conclusion or moral.

80

Screen International by Lee Marshall

For those prepared to invest the time, One Floor Below quietly builds into a devastating portrait of a weak man and the weak society he represents, both of which have lost their moral compasses.

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