Review of Occident

Occident (2002)
4/10
For Romanians only?
3 May 2010
If you are Romanian, Ex-Romanian, if you live or have lived in Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain, if you want to emigrate to the West, then you might suck up every detail of the film and find it good.

If not, like me, you could fall into sleep already within the 15 first minutes already, wake up later on and try desperately to find a clue. Occasionally you have to smile a bit, because the film is not that bad. It will however be funnier for you to compare Romanian with Italian or Latin expressions: 'Politia' is written on the police car, for instance.

This film consists mainly of views towards faces of speaking persons. The most sensational scene is the arrest of a thief by a police squadron. A dinner at McDonald's is also a special event. A ride and a discussion in the BMW of a temporary repatriate is another highlight.

The cinema director informed the spare audience that it was hard to get a preview and a copy. Not on DVD and to be ordered directly from the film director in Bucharest. So why has this film found no distributor abroad? Because no one would go to watch it there.
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