At the 30min mark, I stopped the movie, wondering why I liked the original, when this seemed so bad.
Then I played the original and remembered. The acting, directing, script there were much more realistic and wonderfully made.
This one falls short as a stand-alone movie, falls even shorter when compared to the original. The acting in this one is flat, each character talks at once, never interrupted, like clockwork, which seems so rigid and unrealistic.
The lines aren't culturally adapted to Romanian, and some of the beats change in a forced manner, leaving the viewer to wonder how did that happen.
Then I played the original and remembered. The acting, directing, script there were much more realistic and wonderfully made.
This one falls short as a stand-alone movie, falls even shorter when compared to the original. The acting in this one is flat, each character talks at once, never interrupted, like clockwork, which seems so rigid and unrealistic.
The lines aren't culturally adapted to Romanian, and some of the beats change in a forced manner, leaving the viewer to wonder how did that happen.