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The Whistlers
The Whistlers This comedy that does not pretend to be, The Whistlers full is a rare look at bureaucracy, movie politics and social pain, all from a fatalistic perspective that can provoke a bitter laugh. But with its strident colors, brilliant script and curious vision about good and evil, this jewel of Romanian cinema that you may not know, has become one of the best proposals in a year in which good cinema arrives in a discreet format.
It is likely that until this article you did not know the name of Corneliu Porumboiu, something understandable if Saint Franceswe consider that the Romanian director has dedicated a large part of his filmography to local issues. With a harsh, cynical look and a very singular black humor, Porumboiu has explored all the edges of life in his native Bucharest over the last decade, which he portrays from a slightly bored air but which in the end turns out to be a deceptive lure for talk about harder and more intricate topics.
The director is interested in ethics, spirituality, morality and hypocrisy, all mixed in an attractive staging that runs through the identity of modern man like a cruel joke that is not always fully understood.
The Whistlers, his most recent film and already considered one of the best of this atypical 2020, is completely different. It is also a historical, small and sarcastic experience about modern life, but instead of hiding it with a slow, melancholic and often depressing pace, the director chose to go to the other extreme and create something more delusional: this fable about the superficial is also a sarcastic allegorical look at the way in which the contemporary age assumes pessimism.
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Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Actors: Agustí Villaronga, Antonio Buil Pueyo, Catrinel Marlon, István Téglás, Rodica Lazăr, Sabin Tambrea, Vlad Ivanov
