A mother of seven steals from the dead to keep her children alive. Post-communist Romania doesn't play nice.
When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.
Acting
Diana Dumbravă's face carries entire economic systems collapsing.
Direction
Netzer's handheld camera never lets you look away from suffering.
Cinematography
Grimy basements and gray skies as character, not backdrop.
Director
Călin Peter Netzer
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