Cristi Puyo and Mongi, Netzer are representatives of Romanian New Wave cinema. The most award-winning among them is Mongi, while the Romanian New Wave originating film is Puyo's Reliability without a Doctor, or the Death of Mr. Lazenescu.
One of the characteristics of the Romanian New Wave is that it is very down-to-earth. The death of Mr. Lazenescu, but Mr. Lazenescu did not die in the movie. More precisely, Mr. Lazenescu's cerebral hemorrhage visit. There is no difference between a rough look and a documentary. This kind of movie is the so-called life streaming movie, or real recording. It seems that one-to-one shooting is the same as in life, hand-held photography, low-lighting use natural light as much as possible, no color matching, what the human eye sees. No editing for a single scene, one shot to the end.
Puyu's technique in the film is very similar to that of Hirokazu-eda. According to Feng Xiaogang, it is the process of accumulating a large amount of kinetic energy with a very small potential energy. That is to say, the script has no ups and downs, no reversal, no criticism, and no director's subjective position. The director's intentions are all in the seemingly endless rant. Different from Quentin's nonsensical chatterboxes, the rambles in the flow of life are all portrayals of life. The seemingly disjointed statement actually brings your emotions in in a trickle. The beginning and end of the movie develops in this slow scrambling.
The death of Mr. Razenescu is not a film that takes a stand first, and this kind of subject can easily be made into a critical film like Dangerous Man. However, the script did not blame any party, and everyone did their due diligence and did their job well. However, if you look closely, there are criticisms everywhere.
I always thought that if Chinese films did not have an electronic review system, the bottom line of Chinese film achievement would be at least the level of the Romanian New Wave. The story of Lazenescu's death happens hundreds of times a day across the land of China. The shooting method is also very simple. Even Chinese amateur level directors can shoot it.
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