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soiwaswrong
11Dec11
It hurts me a lot... It's not that funny at all, especially if you know a lot about medical field.... Poor guy!
Jason Callen
24Jul11
Darkly funny but also intensely sad. I'd give it five stars but I refuse to support the excessive use of hand held cameras. If Puiu had had a tripod, this movie might be perfect.
Yusef
1Jun11
It made me think a lot about the figure of the doctor in modern society as well as the vertical relation with the patient. Perfect in portraying beauraucracy and the discourses that sorround human work. Emotionally very sad, made me feel that an unchill death is waiting for all of us. Beyond politics.
Joshuah
3Apr11
as difficult as it is to get through this very long, very depressing and slow moving film... without a shred of hopefulness... you will think about it days, weeks, months later and realize... those were all actors- extraordinarily realistic- i felt like was actually watching romanian doctors/paramedics- not for everyone's taste. and i still don't, and never will, understand why this is considered a comedy.
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EastyBoy
8Nov10
Wow. There was hardly anything enjoyable about watching this film, but it was incredible.
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Gidalte
9Aug10
First movie of called Romanian New Wave, this magnificent movie delineate a portrait of romenian´s public health care. As the time goes by Lazarescu´s health begins to deteriorate and indignation-anguish rises in every single wiever; we can´t help him, not even the assistant, she´s only a sad spectador. Happens in Romania, happens in Brazil and in the end they only can say these kinds of things happen... 9/10
Ardhi Syaifuddin
27Jun10
The only film which realistically depicts the condition of health services without pointing any fingers. I could laugh but also emphatize the main character as he's referred from one health center to another.
Brian Padian
11May10
i suppose one's reaction is based on life experience and/or moral viewpoint, but it is decidely not comic in nature, despite the marketing approach. the blunt inhuman apparatus of medical bureacracy hastening one man's oblivion, moment by moment. pretty effing grim. that said, i loved it.
Stigma
20Apr10
I've been trying so hard to cancel my subjectivity on this movie - but I can't. See these hospitals? I've been there, I've met those doctors, I've been humiliated, my dear ones have been humiliated. They tell me it's black humor. I couldn't laugh at anything more than I would've laughed sitting on a chair in a waiting room. Mr. Lazarescu's physical degradation, his obvious slide towards death that almost everybody seems not to notice is so painfully real, I paralyzed for a moment with the thought that this might as well be a documentary. Yes, it is a motion picture masterpiece in its own right - but for me, the simple courage of telling the truth is worth more than aesthetics.
harryandtonto
24Mar10
This movie is enveloping. I had an idea of what I was getting into when I sat down to watch in theaters a few years ago, but I wasn't expecting to have as visceral a reaction to it as I did. Ion Fiscuteanu's performance is so beautifully realized that by the end you feel as though you are losing someone close to you. It's a heavy film to undertake, but worth every minute I think!!!
Phil Worfel
11Sep09
Really good but I had the impression from the preview that it was a comedy. Even dark comedies have a few laughs but this really was more of a satiric tragedy. But yeah, good.
