The Death of Mr Lazarescu

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Just wondered if anyone has had a chance to see this, doing the roundsat festivals for almost a year now with great press. But there appears to be no US release as yet - the internet seems to think it gets a screening in NYC sometime during April.

Still it sounds good, dark elegaic tragicomedy feasting on the bones of Ceausescu.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, I'm looking forward to it:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/death.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

it is a long, hard slog. i liked it very much but i can't imagine ever sitting through it again.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 February 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see at the film festival, Mark? Did you see the Bettie Page movie? Or the Michael Snow movie?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see "Regular Lovers"?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i saw it at tiff! didn't see the bettie page story or regular lovers tho, and i didn't even know snow had a new movie!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

other things i saw: l'enfant, the great yokai war (miike), sympathy for lady vengeance, thumbsucker and a few others i cannae remember. lazarescu was v. good, i don't mean to dissuade anyone, but there's a wrenching slowness to it. (the film is about the inefficiencies of the romanian healthcare system and it's 150mins long, so you can guess what it does...)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I lived in NYC for a brief while and I love Film Forum, but the NYC-centric distribution patterns for below-the-radar stuff really bugs me. It's the same in London but of course as a Londoner you take it for granted - you can stay in one place and everything (almost too much sometimes) comes right to you. In a place like SF, you have to wait for something to show up and grab it before it escapes like a precious salmon.

Enough with the allegories, I'm just bitching again...

xp
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2005/films_description.asp?id=262

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

On the very few things I've seen, I'm not a fan of Takashi Miike at all, but what was the film like?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see the Bettie Page thing even though it got so-so reviews. I like Mary Harron.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thenotoriousbettiepage.com/

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

the miike movie was a dud. it started off as a cute little fairy tale but it got marred by bad special effects and a stupid third act.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks! I definitely won't be seeing it. :)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Lazarescu is one of the best things I saw last year.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Regular Lovers too!

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

It is a "long hard slog", but it really pays off I think.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone else seen? Apparently tomorrow's the last day at Film Forum, so it looks like tonight for me.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, missed it too and had all intentions of seeing it. Maybe tomorrow.

― TRG (TRG), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's starting at Cinema Village Friday. I liked it but by no means a masterpiece -- the flaws rather neatly dissected here (tho I'm more in the 7/10 range):

http://www.geocities.com/michaelsicinski/TIFF2005.htm#Death

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

OK then, that frees up three hours of my time tonight.

― Redd Temple Player (TowHeaded O.G.) (Ken L), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

The death of the guy who played Lazarescu:

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/005064.html

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

This still ties with La Libertad as best new movie I've seen in the 00s, imo.

― Flowers By Pete (admrl), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

agree this was really good, probably wouldnt watch it again tho

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

aurora is meant to be pretty great. mr lazarescu didn't really do it for me.

― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:57 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

good, but excruciatingly long. which may be the point, but still it's a slog.

also, am i a bad person for having sympathy for at least some of the doctors here? personally, i have little patience for non-lawyers playing "backseat lawyer" so i extend the same courtesy to other "learned professionals." and that can't help but spill over when i watch films like this one.

― die Politik schmeckt wie Arsch (Eisbaer), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

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