Originally Posted by djinjis:
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interesanmt articolas. "robbing the nascent Korean New Wave of oxygen"
ciordelos...
At its heart, If I Want to Whistle is essentially a message movie, a sweeping declaration of the ills facing Romania's youth. A good and noble topic for the filmmakers to pursue, of course, though they do not serve their theme terribly well. It is, frankly, a grind and a chore to get through, devoting far too much time before Silviu snaps and takes his hostage to nothing but stating its mise en scène: not exploring it, not establishing it as a secondary character, but simply placing a real-life reform school before our eyes and then filming it in the exact same kinds of shots, over and over again. Those shots are of that carefully artless school of European "gritty realism", ugly walls and sweaty people filmed with erratic handheld cameras, an aesthetic mainstay of the Romanian New Wave that Şerban dutifully copies without apparently understanding why. And in the meantime, his characters act like they are compelled by the will of the screenwriters (Şerban and Cătălin Mitulescu), not because they have an inner life. It's not the worst of the current wave of Euro-art, not by a long shot, but it's awfully stale and static.
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Poate că autorul o fi vreun elev de clasa a VI-a, dar dovedeşte că e peste nivelul unor critici români, prin capacitatea de a exprima clar o idee şi prin obiectivitate.
