Scarred Hearts
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| Big World Pictures | Release Date: July 27, 2018 |
Starring:
Alexandru Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija, Andrei Rus, Bogdan Cotlet, Catalin Anchidin, Damian Oancea, Dana Marineci, Dana Voicu, Gabriel Spahiu, Ivana Mladenovic, Lucian Teodor Rus, Marius Damian, Sarra Tsorakidis, Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu
Summary:
Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.
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Jul 26, 2018
It’s the rare page-to-screen adaptation in which the camera becomes an essential character. The action often unfolds in long shot, with crowded compositions in which the principals are obscured by door frames. Over time, the withholding of conventional editing patterns and the sensitization to subtle changes in camera placement become an analogue for Emanuel’s entrapment.
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Sep 9, 2016
Sep 10, 2016
Emanuel’s likeability (more apparent in the film than in Blecher’s novel) unquestionably helps bridge the extended running time, and Solange is a fascinating character, liberated yet still drawn to the scene of her hospitalization. The film also has a sense of humor...but the project never quite comes together.
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Jul 23, 2018
Whereas Aferim! was a thrilling epic that uncovered a piece of Romanian history heretofore largely ignored, Hearts hardly develops a pulse, hiding the faces of the protagonists in immobile medium and wide shots while any possible emotions get snowed under by non-contextualized intellectual musings and socio-politico-historical details.
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