California Dreamin’ 2007 123movies

Watch: Nesfârșit 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1999, during the Kosovo War,a train carrying NATO equipment, escorted by American Marines with Captain Doug Jones in command, is held back in Capalnita, a Romanian godforsaken village, by Doiaru, the station master, who blocks the train over a paperwork technicality. For five days the villagers try to take advantage of the Americans’ unexpected presence. The mayor, for instance, organizes a celebration in their honor. On the other hand, sergeant David McLaren, Jones’s second in command, falls in love with Monica, the crafty’s station master’s daughter, who dreams of a better world… And what about the Marines’ initial mission?.
Plot: Cristian Nemescu’s comedy unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country — without official documents, and equipped only with the verbal consent of the Romanian authorities. The transport thus grows intensely vulnerable.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 7,783
	89% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 43 Popularity: 3.296 | TMDB

Reviews:

Dare to say again the same story… (A deja-vue but unlike any-other)
It’s funny how similar are all the comments posted by the Romanian viewers. The first time I saw the movie I thought “God, is it possible to never forget such a sad existence? Such a bitter-sweet look upon our life? The so-called *balkanism*?…” Do we ever make a jump, like a time-lap, and have different views on what do we do every day?

Further more beyond the “national sport” (as someone once called it) of self-complaining lies the truth. A certain truth that hurts. We can all see the progress of the Romanian society; we think that the rest of the world doesn’t. We point the finger on “the other side” or “the good side”, so there shall be no mistakes… Well, I’ve been once in Capalnita, and I had a shock because after seeing this movie I realized it’s all there! There’s no need for sets, there’s no need for trained actors… The grass still grows between the pieces of the sidewalk in the railroad station… Only today’s mobile phones and the car models have changed.

Why should a film director make a “more expensive film” or a “non-low-budget” one? Do you really care about how much did it cost? Or, should really be the film an accurate projection of the real life? Was it ever so? No matter what good or wrong you you’ll see in the recent Romanian society, there are certain people living in this country who can make genuine art. And finishing a work of art is utopia.

I couldn’t avoid to observe Nemescu’s care for details and real life like shots. Many excellent Romanian film directors tend to have a keen sense for the dynamism of the short takes by “wearing” the camera like a peer of glasses. No soundtrack is needed except the music within the scene. In the most cases the human eye concentrates on human subjects just like Nemescu’s lens did in this masterpiece (from normal to long focal lens, say 85mm or even more than 200mm in some cases). One surrealist shot (with the “Romanian-made” Efel tower) caught my attention as an exception. No image stabilizer is needed when you make a non-commercial movie. On the contrary! Usually, in a very dynamic scene -like a fight- your eye captures only bits of shocking details, cause you’re frightened. Complementary artificial lighting is quite moderate if not absent. Sure, this version of the displayed picture needed further cuts and refinements. And this is not because the picture is “too long”. That’s Hollywood’s paradigm, cause art in general doesn’t deal with units of measurement. Strangely as it seems for the “outsiders”, for those who consider the play of the actors and the action are overreacted, this film can generate pure emotions, antipodes, anger, hope, deliverance, fervour, grace… And this is the main purpose of the 7-th art.

Yes, it’s a great movie, even if it’s unfortunately unfinished; like an unexploded bomb in the Romanian consciousness… But is there anything “finished” or it has ever been something really “finished” in our country, Romania? Maybe Cristian Nemescu new why it’s “endless”.

The tragic loss of a great talent
The young Romanian director Cristian Nemescu was killed shortly after completing this tragicomedy set during the conflict in Bosnia. His death was a double tragedy; the loss of a young life, (he was only 27), to be sure and the loss of a potentially major talent in international cinema. However, despite it’s setting “California Dreamin'” isn’t so much a comedy of war but a biting satire on bourgeoisie attitudes in a country struggling to make itself heard. It may not be quite in the same class as some of Milos Forman’s early Czech films, though on occasion it does come close, and there were times when I was reminded of Jiri Menzel’s similarly set “Closely Observed Trains”. The plot revolves around a group of US soldiers, part of NATO, caught between a group of striking villagers and the corrupt station-master who refuses to let their train pass through his station and it is apparently based on fact. Nemescu manages to poke gentle fun at all sides; no-one finally emerges intact with both the Americans and the Romanians coming off equally badly and he does a wonderful job in evoking the boredom of village life. The performances throughout are superb with perhaps Ion Sapdaru as the mayor and Razvan Vasilescu as the station-master the standouts. Those icons of both American and Romanian culture, Elvis and Dracula, also make an appearance.

Other Information:

Original Language ro
Runtime 2 hr 35 min (155 min)
Budget 1600000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama, War
Director Cristian Nemescu
Writer Catherine Linstrum, Cristian Nemescu, Tudor Voican
Actors Armand Assante, Jamie Elman, Razvan Vasilescu
Country Romania
Awards 14 wins & 13 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Kodak Cinelabs, Bucharest, Romania (processing), Magyar Filmlaboratórium Vallalat, Budapest, Hungary (prints)
Film Length 4,265 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)