Review of Filantropica

Filantropica (2002)
5/10
Not bad, but also not specially good
2 May 2006
I don't think this is a special good movie as it had stated in other comments. I wonder why the Romanian film critics call it the best in the Romanian film history. It is indeed better than a lot of American B-films, but you certainly find a lot of such type of stuff in French and Italian movies. Therefore saying this one as the best film in the Romanian film history it might be not really fair to those other Romanian films of good qualities. The acting of the main male leading role in this film is not special good. The support actors are also only so and so up to basic standard. The worse thing is that the whole movie is full of flaws. You call it black comedy? Where is the laughing part then anyway? Well, the story itself is a big joke, perhaps one should laugh for that. And where is the "black" part? I find the Russian film "The bride" can even in a simple and natural way to reflect the situation of the poor living lives.

Technically the film is not badly made, it s just that the whole story of the movie is not special good in a way. If it comes and shows on TV, it is not bad to watch it and experience the Romanian way and standard of making films. Perhaps you will feel another way than mine.
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