Like "United 93" and the work of the Dardenne brothers, it lives entirely in the moment, seeing what happens as it happens, drawing no conclusions, making no speeches, creating no artificial dramatic conflicts, just showing people living one moment after another, as they must.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Mr. Lazarescu is that rich and riveting a film of universal small human moments and big-system failure.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
A watchful, winding-down tragedy of a movie that delivers what it promises. As commentary, it's grim. As filmmaking, it's a powerfully disturbing odyssey through the Bucharest health care system.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
An explicit ode to mortality, not without a certain grim humor.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Almost as exhilarating as it is depressing. Puiu's filmmaking technique is remarkable, and all the more so because it's almost invisible.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Puiu's is the art of the seemingly artless: he takes a story that's utterly unglamorous and mundane, and transforms it into something mythic.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
By recording this all too commonplace and dehumanizing process, Puiu's film shows the sick old man and the strangers who deal with him to be all too human - extraordinarily so.Read Full Review »
It's long, but it's also very real and worth every minute.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Though it is undeniably bleak and pessimistic and marked by a texture of observation worthy of British director Mike Leigh, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is not as forbidding as it sounds.Read Full Review »
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