In a Romanian cinema scenery, built mostly out of strongly socio-political subjects, Nicolae Constantin Tănase's film marks a different stage, a kind of new New Romanian Wave, in which the accent no longer falls on how we relate to the Communist Era or how we face the avatars of the post-Decemberist system; but on aspects that don't exactly carry a historic value - yet are just as alive, as strong, as painful. These are the fights and the dramas that arise not because of the political system (although society does have a say in the destiny of the characters involved), but because of human nature itself. This direction is welcome in Romanian cinema (a direction we've come across before, for example, in Paul Negoescu's A Month in Thailand); one that no longer avoids the so-called 'minor' subjects - casual in appearance but that in fact contain deep meanings.

Silvia Dumitrache

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Theatre critic for "Observator cultural" magazine since 2008, artistic consultant for Nottara Theatre in Bucharest. She enjoys to get to know theatre from many perspective, so, alongside criticism, she also did PR for Undercloud Festival and helped direct two shows by Chris Simion. she is passionated by photography and enjoys Spanish.

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