BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Ava-Grace Willis
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
kosmasp
But unfortunately not that fleshed out. Story-wise there is not that much there. And I should have been warned. When the cover states things like a "cross between Tarantino ..." and another statement that states, that this movie might be a contender for an "Oscar for best foreign movie" ... you know something is wrong. You just don't know what that might be. But visually this is a (black/white) treat.It's just a shame, that the story doesn't get that much attention. It's pretty incoherent, not to mention that even the most beautiful cinematography (metaphors) are not working if their sole purpose is to confuse the viewer and not deliver any kind of direct link to what we are seeing. Of course you could argue that I didn't get all the references and that might be true. But this still aims higher than it actually can reach. So while not a bad movie at all, there is still quite a few things to improve with this one.
emphedokles
In a time where brutality in movies only count when you see tons of blood, sex only count when it looks like porn and the story only count when there are 20 story switches with three parallel stories in it, the Bulgarian cinema brought us a movie which have not any of this in it and although it is ten times better.I am finished five minutes ago watching this movie. And there is no way for me to describe the reason why i give that flick a ten.Not one minute of that movie is boring, nothing in it is hyperbolical. Its lyrical without being intellectual.Just watch it. You will not regret any minute of you're live that you will have spended for watching this movie.
karlpov
Watching this innovative black and white noir thriller, I kept thinking that Frank Miller must have written it, so perfectly does it fit the sensibility of his Sin City comic book series. Innovative, not exactly original: one can indeed detect the influence of any number of famous noir flicks, most notably D.O.A. But it's executed so perfectly that I wouldn't want to complain. My wife said that the film was rich in allusions to Bulgarian life and culture which went right past me. She is definitely not a genre fan but she really liked this movie. Certainly the best Bulgarian movie I've seen since the magically-realistic anti-communist fable The Well.
izumrudy-1
TBH I didn't expect much from this title. The comments I heard were SO overrated that I began to suspect they were all based on what u call regional patriotism. It saddens me to c i was right.Story & Plot 1/10 I mean, common... WTF? What did u tell us? Women are hell itself? People in Bulgaria all smell like sh*t and sweat or a mix of both? The only way to have fun is to get drunk and/or make brutal sex, once again covered in sh*t and sweat? I haven't counted how many times the word 'sh*t' is used but its kinda the most used word in the movie.Characters 1/10 Erm... Come again? The Moth? The Mantis? Oh really! No development whatsoever during the movie, nothing... I mean u cant write about something that is pretty much non existing. OST 3/10 There was only 1 good thing in Zift - The opening song called Smuglyanka Moldavanka performed by the Red Army Choir.Enjoyment 0/10 No commentI have just 1 wish: Please, pretty please, stop making use of the communist regime as an excuse for making crap movies. Its gone. We all can c it. Cant u? Time to talk about something else.
