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A documentary presented at Bucharest Cinepolitica Festival, and it's a pity it will remain virtually unknown for the Romanian public at large, as it tackles an issue of extreme importance for the civil society here. It's a Rosia Montana case from another former socialist country. It's not only about a foreign capitalist company and a group of local compradores, (plus a sympathetic echo-friendly doctor), the number of actors is significantly larger, each one with valid arguments, each one with hidden skeletons. Some keep in their closet a fear deeply learned in old Soviet times, mixed with nostalgia, some others learned in those years how to manage people through fear, and this knowledge is also mixed with nostalgia, some learned how to expect everything or to steal from the Big Brother, be it Soviet Power or Multinational Company, and here also it's nostalgia in the picture - skeletons are of various kinds. And All That Glitters is a superb documentary, relentless while honest: the camera is exploring ruthlessly the facts, while the movie doesn't take sides, leaving to us the judgment.