Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) is a typical schoolboy in search of some identity and--being lack of guide, ends up hanging out with the wrong people. Itso (Christo Christov) was a drug addict now undergoing a therapy who finds himself sinking in beers. Through them, we see post cold-war Bulgaria--its freedom, as well as its confusion.... (Full plot summary below)
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Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) is a typical schoolboy in search of some identity and--being lack of guide, ends up hanging out with the wrong people. Itso (Christo Christov) was a drug addict now undergoing a therapy who finds himself sinking in beers. Through them, we see post cold-war Bulgaria--its freedom, as well as its confusion.
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| User ReviewMaksim BMesmerizing and brilliant movie. In fact, I believe this could hardly be considered a movie, but just shots from the true life. The absurd reality,as it is, and the attempt of a real person, not an actor to fight his demons and to find his place on Earth. The story consists of multiple plot lines, just as complex as the real life is, without any flavors or make up and best example for this is the most honest and sincere scene I have ever seen with Hristo Hristov and the psychiatrist. Probably the best Bulgarian movie since 1989.... |
| User ReviewPondering TTouching drama with real people (not actors) and the result is .... the best Bulgarian movie of the recent time. All thumbs up! |
| User ReviewChris ZBrilliant! Really amazing, wonderfully shot, great writing, great acting, and the layers of stuff that are happening politically, personally, ideologically, etc are just endless. I immediately wanted to see this film again. Witty, bittersweet, just beautifuully done. Anyway, this is a story(in Bulgaria) that focuses mainly on Christo Christov, an addict artist scraping a living out of working at a workworking factory, who is working through methadone treatment but has in turn become a heavy alcoholic. His younger brother escapes his dysfunctional family angrily instead of with Christo's angst, and finds refuge with some politically-involved neo-nazis. Encountering a turkish tourist family, a group of skinheads which includes Christo's brother, they beat up the father. Christo stumbles drunkenly on the attack, attempts to intervene and is also beaten as his brother and the skinheads run off. The film follows the two brothers as they shrug off the incident, and both attempt desperately to find their way in their lost places and lost lives and seek some kind of happiness in their lives, but as a metaphor for a much larger feeling of loss, change, turmoil and confusion of eastern europe. It is handled brilliantly though, and with enough humor, beauty, and a dash of hope such that this is not some existential "woe-is-me" drag of a film. Serious, yes, but not relentless hopelessness. Also of pertinence is that Christo the lead actor (non-professional, essentially plays himself) died shortly after the film finished shooting, which brings another layer of reality and seriousness to this film. Highly recommended, the best so far that I've seen at SIFF. |
| User ReviewYagodina MDon't leave your soul in the refrigerator |
| User ReviewPascal ZStaged in current day Sofia this film portrays the effects of an all too known and all too frightening blind hatred toward anyone that is different. Two brothers, one an artistic drug addict on the mend, the other a racist. Once divided now brought back together by a single event that forever changes the lives of all. Dark and dreary, scary and painful. Films that tangle with racism in the way this film does always are like that. It settles like a huge weight on the stomach and doesn't lighten for many long moments. It never gets too heavy though - it's just right. The acting work is fitting, the characters displayed are real. And this makes it all the more scary. It's all too easy to feel a form of compassion for all of them, which adds a lot to the film. 8 out of 10 life altering choices |
| User ReviewTor MFloating film with heart in the city of Sofia where everyone just excist, they drift around. You can tell that there is a sad place and time these people live in - at least that's the status for our leads. No happy people here, really. This is quite dark, but stil very humane. An atmospheric piece with fitting music - I like this feature a lot. It's never boring, the pace is fine and things seem to happen all the time. Great acting and a great theme or themes. It seem like a very honest film, and it's a well made film. A bit boring at times, but it got it's tenser moments - you know that spooky feel you get when things are about happen? It's often present here. A very nice feature-length debut from the young director and there's also some cool, but sad, trivia here about the lead. He used his home, apartment and own art in this film, and sadly he died from an overdose straight after the wrapping of the film. Overlooked film that is worth a shot. |
| User ReviewSerdar CNice little Bulgarian movie about intersecting lives of some young people, that has some things to say about racism, depression and the ultimate loneliness of people. Decent debut rom the director, good acting from the lead actor and some good music. |
| User ReviewAlfin NIntertwining story with a good dose of contemporary Bulgarian lifestyle. |
| User ReviewLyubomir HWelcome to the atmosphere of the 80-es in a movie that is supposed to represent 2009. Everything in this movie is wrong - from the communist era furniture to the street gang of metal-listening (!?) rags. Still waiting for the new Bulgarian cinema. |
| User ReviewMarc LIl existe de toute évidence un modus operandi plus ou moins officiel employé par tout les réalisateurs qui ont l'ambition de tourner un drame social. Pour concocter un bon drame social, il faut de la grisaille, beaucoup de grisaille : c'est important la grisaille, tous les frères Dardenne du monde vous le diront. Il faut aussi des gens unis par les liens du sang, idéalement des frères, qui se sont égarés dans le grand maëlstrom de l'existence, qui ont plein de problèmes (toxicomanie, relations familiales pourries, appartenance à un gang de nazis) mais qui tentent envers et contre tout de remonter la pente. Si besoin est, on peut rajouter une femme à la mixture, qui symboliserait la possibilité de rédemption, que les personnages ne peuvent ou ne veulent pas saisir immédiatement. Enfin, en tant que réalisateur militant, il ne faut jamais hésiter à souligner les diverses tares sociales et politiques de l'endroit où on vit (corruption endémique, populisme, racisme, etc) mais sans chercher à y apporter un quelconque point de vue critique : manquerait plus que d'être soupçonné de poujadisme ! Nanti de ces quelques conseils, tout cinéaste débutant devrait parvenir à réaliser un film un peu emmerdant et redondant mais qui récoltera sans problème des fonds européens Media et sera apprécié par des gens qui éprouvent le plus vif intérêt pour les problématiques sociales pour autant qu'ils en soient séparés par un écran. Et quand un drame personnel s'est noué en coulisse, cela renforce encore le côté "cinéma-vérité" : "Eastern plays" s'inspire en effet du parcours de son acteur principal, Christo Christov, qui joue le frangin toxico, mais qui était réellement toxico et qui est mort pendant le tournage (mais pas dans le film). Outre le fait qu'il obéit intégralement à toutes les règles citées plus haut, signalons également que "Eastern plays" est un film bulgare. C'est inhabituel un film bulgare, ça surprend. On se demande ce que cette culture un peu méconnue peut apporter en terme de regard novateur sur le drame social, comment elle perçoit ce qui est dramatique, comment elle le restitue. En un mot, un film bulgare attire parce qu'il est exotique. Dommage que ce soit, après coup, l'unique raison qui puisse expliquer qu'on ait consacré deux heures à regarder "Eastern plays". |
