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- 2015
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 29 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 29 m
Summary In the midst of his latest production, director Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache) must convince Alina (Diana Avramut), an actress with whom he's having an affair, to do a nude scene. Unable to convince her and having his own creative doubts, Paul fakes an ulcer to delay shooting.
Written By: Corneliu Porumboiu
- 2015
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 29 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 29 m
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
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Summary In the midst of his latest production, director Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache) must convince Alina (Diana Avramut), an actress with whom he's having an affair, to do a nude scene. Unable to convince her and having his own creative doubts, Paul fakes an ulcer to delay shooting.
Written By: Corneliu Porumboiu
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
67
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
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0% Negative
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At once a microcosmic expression of frustration and another of auto-critique, When Evening Falls devilishly recalls and riffs on seemingly shapeless conversations between its very small ensemble of characters without succumbing to soporific navel-gazing.
At times, Porumboiu’s mix of repetition and resignation recalls Samuel Beckett, and if the overall result is more of a clever exercise than a proper movie, it’ll still have some dryly amusing appeal for those who appreciate intellectual absurdism.
[A] dryly funny, enigmatic new work.
The third feature of Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu that again takes a clichéd-seeming premise and carefully proceeds to turn it on its head through logic, absurd humor and the consumption of vast quantities of cigarettes.
Metabolism contains enough moments that reward patience to balance off the eventual teetering off of its strengths.
Porumboiu so carefully intellectualizes every outwardly inconsequential exchange that the picture has no room to breathe, forcing audiences to work hard to catch the sly playfulness and cunning within.
For all the formidable intellect that went into its conceit, When Evening Falls On Bucharest has a slightness that isn’t helped much by the weight of the discussion, which occasionally presses it into a flat soufflé. But Porumboiu’s insight into the filmmaking process itself is often fascinating.
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Production Company
42 Km Film,
Les Films du Worso
Release Date Jan 9, 2015
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline After "Police, Adjective" and "12:08 East of Bucharest", The New Film From Corneliu Porumboiu.
Awards
Gopo Awards, Romania
• 7 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sarajevo Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
