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Romania, Germany, France · 2017
2h 7m
Director Călin Peter Netzer
Starring Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Carmen Tănase, Vasile Muraru
Genre Drama, Romance
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Toma and Ana meet at university while studying literature and quickly fall in love. The two get married and Toma supports Ana as she struggles with her mental health. Eventually, though, Toma struggles to be with a woman he cannot understand.
By no means a failed film, this two-hander about toxic-codependency from Romanian director C?lin Peter Netzer is best in small-moments and insightful asides, but does a disservice to the relationship at its heart by honing in on one single thought and hammering it home again and again and again.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
It’s a smart film with engaging moments. But working overtime to build an involving multi-layered drama with a flurry of hand-held camera movements and dizzying flashbacks, it ultimately turns repetitive and annoying.
C?lin Peter Netzer’s follow-up to his Golden Bear winner “Child’s Pose” lacks that film’s directness and drive, and not only because this time he’s chosen to shuffle the sequence of events.
Screen International by Jonathan Romney
The film is undoubtedly a tour de force, not least by the two actors, who essentially play several characters - or at least, multiple aspects of the two lovers - and who both audaciously shed inhibitions in a film that is at times as exposing sexually as it is psychologically.
Effective in articulating how relationships work as a way of transferring and understanding the unspoken and unseen feelings that lay dormant within us all, Netzer's intelligent portrait of a ticking time-bomb relationship sadly lacks the warmth and tenderness required for it ever to ignite.
The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor
It’s an interesting and quite tragic saga, as if Linklater were to cut his Before trilogy into a single film.
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