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Child's Pose

Pozitia copilului (Child's Pose)

2013

Calin Peter Netzer

Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Florin Zamfirescu, Natasa Raab ...

6.6

2,011

Drama Wealthy Bucharest architect Cornelia fights to keep her disaffected adult son Barbu out of jail following a careless car accident that claims the life of a young child. Meanwhile, the harder Cornelia works to convince everyone involved that Barbu wasn't speeding, the more she begins to believe her own desperate, blatant deceptions. A nuanced study of unconditional love.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Noted scripter Razvan Radulescu delivers his strongest screenplay for some time (...) A razor-sharp jibe at Romania's nouveau riche (...) Sharp, multilayered dialogue and expectedly canny performances"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Sure-footed scripting and a stand-out performance by Luminita Gheorghiu freshen a potentially pat subject."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A drama with a story as cold, merciless and inevitable as a tomb."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is a gripping new drama from Romania and another demonstration of how that country's new wave is developing a distinctive kind of real-time slice-of-life cinema with characterisation in extreme, pitiless closeup. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"A fascinating, troubling and finally controversial portrait of maternal anxiety at its most smotheringly neurotic. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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