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Pescuit sportiv (2008) is a Romanian movie. Adrian Sitaru has directed this movie. Adrian Titieni,Ioana Flora,Maria Dinulescu,Alexandru Georgescu are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Pescuit sportiv (2008) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Mihai is a maths teacher from Bucharest, unhappy about the compromises that his school headmistress asks him to make. The story starts on a weekend day when Mihai and his lover, SWEETIE, go out for a picnic just to relax a bit after a very stressful week. But the day takes a different course when Sweetie runs their car over a prostitute, on a side road outside Bucharest. The two lovers fight, as Sweetie wants to cover up the accident, while Mihai, a moralist, can't accept that. Sweetie's aggressiveness wins over meek Mihai, and so they decide to hide the woman's corpse in the forest. The prostitute, however, turns out to be not that badly hurt and recovers. The two dodge, pretending they had found her hurt, and Ana, the hooker, invites herself to the picnic. Ana gradually gets into the couple's life, aggressing Sweetie, warming up to Mihai and being indifferent when they are all together. While meaning well, she lies and manipulates them - but then anyone can see that Ana, even if not...
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Pescuit sportiv (2008) Reviews
This is what it's all about!
I was surprised to see such a good Romanian movie again. Some people might say they are fed-up with mundane personages and prostitutes and adultery, but let me tell you, this is real life - or as Ioana Flora keeps saying in the movie: "This is what it's all about" ("Despre asta-i vorba"), and if many old-timers have no skill do depict them in style, Adrian Sitaru can really do it! His conception is elegant and delicate, and also powerful and cruel, even ruthless - after all, this is what it's all about... Splendid characters, all three of them! Adrian Titieni makes a very realistic maths teacher who is very human and has his own problems, Ioana Flora is so natural and dramatic, in her embittered and stuffy "Iubi", while Maria Dinulescu simply rocks! What a monument of sweetness and poison, my friends - and, all in all, SO REALISTIC! Now this is what it's all about!
Another remarkable artwork of the New Romanian Cinema
Adrian Sitaru shows here the grit to take on an immense risk - and make it worth: a movie made up exclusively of subjective angles: the camera alternatively substitutes itself to each of the three main characters, and also to the secondary and cameo ones. The effect is "BlairWitchian" (or "Cloverfieldesque") and it works perfectly. Far of being just a cinematographic stunt, the method is invested with serious expressive values, contributing to the significant developing of the relationships between the characters. One should also remark the well built script, the crescendo of terror, the economy of means - everything reminding, in the best possible vein, of Polanski's "Nóz w wodzie" ("Knife in the Water"). Special kudos for the characters, extremely credible, coherent in their inner complexity, realistic but also insolite. Definitely, a lesson in creating live humans on screen, and carry them to unbearable heights of tension. Finally, we must underscore the tremendous merit of making this valuable piece of art as an independent project, using digital technique and with virtually no budget. Fortunately, it turned out so good, that the producers finished by finding the financing for conversion on film. Definitely, Adrian Sitaru is a new gain for Romanian and European cinema!
artsy, pointless
This is absolutely everything that's wrong with the Romanian movie industry: artsy, pretentious BS with no real substance. The story in itself was interesting, but the flat acting, the shaky camera (seriously, why?) and the long shots with little to no action made it a difficult watch. And not difficult as in complex, difficult as in 'so boring, I'm questioning my motivation to go through with this'. Why the long shots, the "nothing happens, check out the grass being blown by the wind for 3 minutes"? If you've got a good story, but it's only enough to fill 20 minutes, make a short film. I like shorts. I'd watch a good short any day. All that filler ain't art. It's just pretentious filler. Here's a spoiler for the ending: nothing happens.