Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Executscan Expected more

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

dipesh parmar Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer's 'Child's Pose' is a drama about a rich, dysfunctional family in Bucharest, where one incident unravels the very fabric that holds them together.Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu) is the controlling mother who dominates this film, an architect with the right connections thanks to her businessman husband Aurelian (Florin Zamfirescu). She is estranged from her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache), and blames Barbu's girlfriend Carmen (Ilinca Goia) for this separation. In fact, she spends most of her time bemoaning everyone in her family, completely blinkered to the fact that she's probably most at fault for creating such a hideous family structure.Barbu gets into serious trouble which will most certainly change his life, but how much depends on him and his family. He seems set on doing the right thing and pleading his guilt, as we would all hope. But Cornelia railroads her way to the front to play the devoted mother, closely followed by her sister-in-law, Olga (Natasa Raab). We see Cornelia the operator, manipulating the situation and dictating the lives of all concerned. She struts around in her fur coat, telling the police what should be done, namedropping others within her elite circle of Bucharest society, so that she gets what she thinks she's entitled to.Our distaste for Cornelia grows exponentially, such is her lack of remorse and disregard for all around her as long as "my baby" is not harmed. Everything she does has an ulterior motive, even her maid is wary of any communication she has with her. To witness the presence of Cornelia involves being undermined by her, with hidden meanings and veiled threats, all to illustrate who is in charge. Such is her need for control and maintaining standards, she even dictates the novels that Barbu should be reading. Of course, her sole aim is to get Barbu back for herself, she's not remotely interested in his life and his partner and couldn't care less about his predicament. Barbu knows the more his mother is involved the harder she will make her life. He probably prefers a life in jail just to get away from his scheming mother!As with other recent Romanian films such as 'Beyond the Hills', '4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days', and 'The Death of Mr. Lazarescu', 'Child's Pose' poses difficult questions in a Romanian society finally free from the Ceaușescu regime. This film is all about class, entitlement, and how one tyrannical system has been replaced by one thats just as bad for the majority. Gheorghiu is superb as the monstrous Cornelia, joining an ever- increasing list of mothers from hell in film. Just like the aforementioned films, 'Child's Pose' is gritty and occasionally heavy-handed but you have to admire its intelligence and single-mindedness.

cervus35 The most intense scene comes at the end when the mother meets with the parents of the dead boy. When the mother of the driver (Cornelia) tries to persuade the mother of the dead boy that her own son is a nice kid, that he did certain good things in childhood etc, one has to ask, How cruelly insensitive can one person be toward another? The scene is more honest than typical reconciliation scenes in sentimental movies in which "two people come together over their shared grief" in a clichéd way. Since we know that the mother (Cornelia) has done everything to exculpate her guilty and irresponsible son -- including bribery of police, damaging sworn evidence, bribery of witnesses, and pressure on politicians -- we can not sympathize with her. At least that's the way I understood this scene, the climax of the movie. The sadness Cornelia feels because she is estranged from her rotten son can not excuse her criminal actions. The rotten son's brief handshake with the grieving father is very minor compared with the cruel and illegal actions of the mother. This is a realistic and honest film, even if it's not shot or sound-recorded with great beauty.

Dare Davil Film poor, slow, monotonous that revolves around a thin and bland plot. In one word: negligible. Romanian cinema is worth and overestimated, it is increasingly leverage on the contrast between social classes and on the struggle for survival but through scripts and rhythms really ridiculous. Mungiu, Netzer .... are technically second-rate filmmakers who tell stories insipid and boring. however deserves a special mention Luminita Gheorghiu engaged in a good actress performance, but obviously is not enough. Putting in a pot, piety, poverty, greed, corruption, indolence, you get romanian cinema served up as neorealism but in fact a disgusting food.

numedeuser More than 90% of the rich and powerful in Romania, who kills(by accident or not) a poor one, escape with little or no punishment from the state legislators.I would have liked, that the people who made this film had the balls to end it otherwise than how the rich wants.In the same pervert way, the doctor(who falsified the blood test making it without alcohol) and the chief policeman(who permitted and even suggested the rich to break the law) gained some kind of profit from the rich and powerful, the makers of this film had compromised and end it exactly how the rich wants(after all, it is they who pay for the making of the movie).I liked most of the movie(which is pretty much in conformance with the reality in Romania), even though at the same time i felt so much disgust seeing these fake people(the rich ones) acting without honesty, dignity, empathy.... This movie is not a winner. It is a looser, unfortunately, because of the end of it.