Tuesday, After Christmas 2010 123movies

Watch: Marți, după Crăciun 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – Paul, a banker in Bucharest, has been married for ten years to Adriana and they have an adored daughter Mara. The child has tooth problems which are being tended by Raluca, an attractive young orthodontist. Since first seeing her in the summer, Paul has been having a secret affair with her. But, as Christmas approaches, tensions mount. While he loves both women, Raluca tells him what he already knows: that he must choose. When he says to his wife that he is in love with Raluca, she orders him to move out and to say nothing to Mara. The round of Christmas festivities then begins, with the couple pretending outwardly that nothing is wrong. Action is postponed until the Tuesday after Christmas..
Plot: Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he’s shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 4,726
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	81/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 48 Popularity: 3.26 | TMDB

Reviews:

Don’t watch this film – no spoilers – Don’t say you weren’t warned.
This is a “slice of life” film. To give you an example, Fight Club is about the few months in which the main character establishes his first fight club and network of franchises across the country. It’s a story that spans quite some time, so some parts are compressed – the highlights are shown, the rest is implied or shown in montages.

Some films focus on a much thinner slice, the peak of the story. This story attempts that. We are not to see the beginning of the relationship, the honeymoon phase, the stagnation and then the affair. We are introduced to the characters already in the middle of the affair period.

The “peak” of this story is the time Paul has to make a decision. Without spoiling the story (not that it could be spoiled), Paul has to chose between these two women, supposedly, according to the synopsis. With deductive reasoning, you can already guess that he is not the one who says “you have to make a choice” – this man is a cheater, his actions already show that he wants both at the same time. So you can guess that this “make a choice” ultimatum was made to him by someone.

But there isn’t really much of a choice. We are shown his two lives, a completely normal, uneventful domestic life with his wife and child on one hand and a new relationship on the other, with more passion, since it’s the start. In short, one has brushing teeth, shaving and quiet dinners and the other has pillow talk.

This is all from the photos, there are no spoilers here.

Almost everything is in real time, meaning, we’re not given the highlights. You know how pillow talk lasts 1 minute in films, whereas in real life it’s 15? Don’t worry about it, here you get the whole 15. You know how waiting rooms last a long time whereas in films it’s seconds? Well, it’s all in here. Do you want to see people Christmas shopping? In real time? It’s here. It’s all long takes.

This film is a short film with little story fattened up with banal scenes that add nothing.

Surely some will see it as some sort of Romanian version of American Beauty, i.e. the middle class dream is not all that great, but this film is seriously overrated. The reviews are all glowing, but it only has 7/10. The number of people giving it 9 and above is almost equal to the number of people giving it 5 and under.

Consider that there is some pre-filtering going on. The average person would not watch a Romanian film to begin with, so the only people voting are people used to more minimalist foreign films. It’s still not good though.

The cinema of Romania has experienced many difficult decades, where filmmakers were not allowed to tell the truth about what was happening in their country. This film does not have any of these shackles. Instead, the director showed the real Romania, reality as it is, without a pinch of salt to boost the entertainment value.

Either add a bit of spice to the film to make it more enjoyable or cut it smarter to only show the best parts of this normal life. Even if I were to edit my own boring life, I’d be able to make it interesting by editing out the boring parts.

This film does not only not cut out the boring parts, it is just the boring parts. Those parts are the main focus and that’s why it’s getting such high praise from people who hate car-chase scenes and roof top fights. I hate car chases too, but I don’t want to see a complete, uncut dental appointment from parking to exit.

My friends did not finish this film but I did. They didn’t even bother asking what happened later.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

A film where nothing happens. Hard to spoil a movie where nothing happens. The storyline on IMDb is the whole story.
2 stars for realism, and 1 star for not being another depressing movie about some drug-addicted street orphans (you know the type) but that’s about it.

I’ll break it down scene by scene without giving any plot spoilers, which is easy, since there is barely any plot. The storyline you see on the IMDb main page is the whole story.

The film starts with the main character (Paul) and his mistress cuddling and talking in bed for about 10 minutes. Then he shops with his wife for Christmas gifts, trying shirts, looking for a snowboard, etc. There’s a few scenes in cars, the most eventful of which Paul tries to dissuade his wife from going to the dental clinic.

Then there’s the dental clinic scene, a scene of over 20 minutes, in real time, with no cuts, from waiting room to second room to examination/surgery room. The doctor explains the situation (their child needs braces), how to use them, the future, etc. to both parents, with the child sometimes interrupting or needing explanation. The parents need time to decide, and there’s no cuts, we just wait and see. The only interesting thing here is that the dentist is Paul’s mistress, so the director decided that we need to see 20 or so minutes of this.

We see Paul’s domestic life, having dinner, his wife helping him shave the back of his head, random boring stuff. Then Paul goes to talk to his mistress, who’s unhappy with the situation.

At one hour four minutes into this 1:39 hour film, nothing has happened yet. We just know that Paul has a mistress, his wife doesn’t know and their child needs braces.

As the synopsis says, and if I may “spoil” it, he tells his wife and after asking him the who/what/when/where, she tells him that their marriage is over. There’s one packing scene (where he packs his stuff to leave) and a family dinner where the married couple keeps up the pretense for the sake of their child.

In short, a man has an affair with his daughter’s dentist. He tells his wife, who then asks for a divorce. That’s it.

Many European film makers have taken the (reactionary) position that European cinema is the opposite of Hollywood cinema. So if Hollywood makes a movie that’s all fast cuts, shaky cam, action, witty one-liners, big music and bigger events, then continental film makers want to make something with no cuts whatsoever, real time, long-take, no dialogue, all about facial expressions and silence. Both philosophies have reached the point of caricature and parody.

I would not be surprised to see a European film where it’s a black-and- white, no-dialogue, single-take 2 hour film of a man having an espresso and a pack of cigarettes in silence as he contemplates something that’s only mentioned in the title of the film.

Other Information:

Original Language ro
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 20666
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Radu Muntean
Writer Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Razvan Radulescu
Actors Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu
Country Romania
Awards 8 wins & 16 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,781 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A