Exclusive: Production has wrapped on a Bulgarian live-action short film starring Oscar-nominated Bulgarian actor Maria Bakalova. The film, titled Това, Kоето Oстава (English title: What Stays After), is directed by Dimitris Georgiev. The short is produced by No Blink Pictures, New European Wave Entertainment and Bakalova’s production company Five Oceans, co-founded with fellow actor and filmmaker Julian Kostov.
Joining Bakalova in the cast of What Stays After are leading Bulgarian actors Zachary Baharov, Elena Telbis (Losers) and Margita Gosheva (The Father), with young actor Yan Lozov as the lead.
Written by Bulgarian filmmakers Georgiev and Mariy Rosen, What Stays After tells the coming-of-age story of a boy during tragic events that tear his family apart. The characters in the movie face the pain of losing a loved one, discover truths they are not ready for,...
Joining Bakalova in the cast of What Stays After are leading Bulgarian actors Zachary Baharov, Elena Telbis (Losers) and Margita Gosheva (The Father), with young actor Yan Lozov as the lead.
Written by Bulgarian filmmakers Georgiev and Mariy Rosen, What Stays After tells the coming-of-age story of a boy during tragic events that tear his family apart. The characters in the movie face the pain of losing a loved one, discover truths they are not ready for,...
- 3/23/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova is returning to Bulgaria for a dark comedy based on wildly true events.
The “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actress is set to star in and produce “Triumph,” inspired by the aftermath of the fall of Communism in the 1990s when Bulgarian army officials teamed up with psychics to find a rumored alien artifact to change the course of history and restore Bulgaria’s honor. Deadline first reported the news.
Bakalova and Julian Kostov (“Shadow and Bone”) will produce “Triumph” through their company Five Oceans. “Triumph” is their first production through Five Oceans, which aims to showcase Bulgarian, Balkan, and Slavic stories on an international scale.
Academy Award-nominated directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (2019’s “The Father”) will helm the feature and collaborate with Bakalova once more. “Triumph” is part of the trilogy by Grozeva and Valchanov that also includes 2014’s “The Lesson” and 2016’s “Glory.
The “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actress is set to star in and produce “Triumph,” inspired by the aftermath of the fall of Communism in the 1990s when Bulgarian army officials teamed up with psychics to find a rumored alien artifact to change the course of history and restore Bulgaria’s honor. Deadline first reported the news.
Bakalova and Julian Kostov (“Shadow and Bone”) will produce “Triumph” through their company Five Oceans. “Triumph” is their first production through Five Oceans, which aims to showcase Bulgarian, Balkan, and Slavic stories on an international scale.
Academy Award-nominated directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (2019’s “The Father”) will helm the feature and collaborate with Bakalova once more. “Triumph” is part of the trilogy by Grozeva and Valchanov that also includes 2014’s “The Lesson” and 2016’s “Glory.
- 8/25/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: It’s a homecoming for Maria Bakalova who is starring in and producing Triumph, the first movie she has done in her native Bulgaria following her breakout role in Borat 2, which launched her Hollywood career. Bakalova has joined the cast of Triumph alongside another Bulgarian actor who has found success internationally, Shadow and Bone‘s Julian Kostov. The duo will produce through their company Five Oceans.
The darkly comedic Triumph (Триумф) is directed by award-winning Bulgarian filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, whose most recent movie The Father featured Bakalova and was selected as Bulgaria’s 2021 International Oscar entry after winning the Grand Prix at the 2019 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Bakalova, who will play the lead, and Kostov join leading Bulgarian actors Julian Vergov and The Father star Margita Gosheva in Triumph, a military satire inspired by well-known, wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic...
The darkly comedic Triumph (Триумф) is directed by award-winning Bulgarian filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, whose most recent movie The Father featured Bakalova and was selected as Bulgaria’s 2021 International Oscar entry after winning the Grand Prix at the 2019 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Bakalova, who will play the lead, and Kostov join leading Bulgarian actors Julian Vergov and The Father star Margita Gosheva in Triumph, a military satire inspired by well-known, wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic...
- 8/25/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Kong: Skull Island (action-adventure; Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman; available now on cable Mod as well as Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD; rated PG-13) Glory (drama; Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva; not rated) Free Fire (action-adventure; Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sam Riley, Sharlto Copley; rated R) The Promise (romantic drama; Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon; rated PG-13) First Kill (action-thriller; Bruce Willis...
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- 7/19/2017
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
You see “Iran” and think certain things. You go to Iran and see the people, the shops, street activity, the environment, its museums and you forget the two things about it which shape your emotional reaction to it: politics and history. Being one of two Americans attending the Fajr International Film Festival makes me feel responsible for sharing my best moments with a broader public.
The Fajr International Film Festival is a gala affair, small enough to meet and share time with the many participants, both filmmakers and invitees from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, Turkey, Japan, Mongolia and Korea (and more!). I can only think of one other film event which offered such a luxurious array of experiences to go along with film watching (when Rosskino of Russia invited 25 U.S.distributors and us to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then repeated the event for Brics countries...
The Fajr International Film Festival is a gala affair, small enough to meet and share time with the many participants, both filmmakers and invitees from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, Turkey, Japan, Mongolia and Korea (and more!). I can only think of one other film event which offered such a luxurious array of experiences to go along with film watching (when Rosskino of Russia invited 25 U.S.distributors and us to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then repeated the event for Brics countries...
- 5/1/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
“Glory” screened at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival. Now, the drama by writing/directing duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov will open at New York City’s Film Forum on April 12. The story is a follow-up to the duo’s 2014 award-winning drama “The Lesson,” which was the first feature film the two worked on together.
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“Glory” follows Tzanko Petrov (Stefan Denolyubov), a shy and solitary railroad worker in Bulgaria who discovers a large sum of cash on the tracks and turns it in to the authorities. When the head of PR for the Transport Ministry, Julia Staikova (Margita Gosheva), uses him as a “national hero” to divert attention from a corruption scandal, Tzanko’s life gets turned upside down and he ends up being ridiculed nationally.
“Glory” (“Slava” in Bugarian) is the...
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“Glory” follows Tzanko Petrov (Stefan Denolyubov), a shy and solitary railroad worker in Bulgaria who discovers a large sum of cash on the tracks and turns it in to the authorities. When the head of PR for the Transport Ministry, Julia Staikova (Margita Gosheva), uses him as a “national hero” to divert attention from a corruption scandal, Tzanko’s life gets turned upside down and he ends up being ridiculed nationally.
“Glory” (“Slava” in Bugarian) is the...
- 3/2/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Film Movement has acquired Us and English-speaking Canadian rights to Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Glory (Slava) following its recent world premiere in Locarno.
The filmmaker’s follow-up to The Lesson is described as a modern-day morality tale about a railway linesman who discovers a small fortune on the railroad tracks and feels unrewarded after he returns the money.
Stefan Denolyubov and Margita Gosheva star in the Bulgaria-Greece production, which was inspired by a Bulgarian news story.
Film Movement plans an early 2017 theatrical release.
President Michael E. Rosenberg brokered the deal in Toronto with Wide Management head of international sales Diane Ferrandez.
The filmmaker’s follow-up to The Lesson is described as a modern-day morality tale about a railway linesman who discovers a small fortune on the railroad tracks and feels unrewarded after he returns the money.
Stefan Denolyubov and Margita Gosheva star in the Bulgaria-Greece production, which was inspired by a Bulgarian news story.
Film Movement plans an early 2017 theatrical release.
President Michael E. Rosenberg brokered the deal in Toronto with Wide Management head of international sales Diane Ferrandez.
- 9/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sometimes a simple premise leads to deep results. Such is the case with “Glory” (“Slava”), Buglarian directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s stirring third feature, which plays like a parable that keeps expanding its themes. Solitary railway worker Tsanko (Stefan Denolyubov) discovers a pile of cash in the middle of the tracks and, good samaritan that he is, calls the authorities. From that straightforward opening, “Glory” borrows a page from the Frank Capra playbook of working class men thrust into the limelight and disoriented by forces beyond their control.
Building on territory last explored in their 2014 feature “The Lesson,” Grozeva and Valchanov utilize the naturalistic style of Belgian duo the Dardenne brothers — documentary realism, a slow-burn pace — where everyday social realities take on poignant dimensions. Those familiar traditions mean that “Glory” breaks no new ground, and at times its morality play can seem pretty straightforward. But it’s so...
Building on territory last explored in their 2014 feature “The Lesson,” Grozeva and Valchanov utilize the naturalistic style of Belgian duo the Dardenne brothers — documentary realism, a slow-burn pace — where everyday social realities take on poignant dimensions. Those familiar traditions mean that “Glory” breaks no new ground, and at times its morality play can seem pretty straightforward. But it’s so...
- 8/6/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The festival will also honour Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith.
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren and Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith will be guests of honour at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff, May 27 – June 5).
The festival kicks off this evening with the world premiere of Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9. On The Richter Scale.
The festival’s closing gala on June 4 will see Loren [pictured in 2014 short Human Voice] – who is visiting Romania for the first time - receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Smith – who came to Romania to produce Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain in 2003 - will be presented with the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema on the same evening in Cluj’s National Theatre.
Competition
This year’s 12-strong Competition includes nine first features such as Bogdan Mirică’s Balkan anti-Western Dogs, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s horror film Shelley, and [link=nm...
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren and Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith will be guests of honour at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff, May 27 – June 5).
The festival kicks off this evening with the world premiere of Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9. On The Richter Scale.
The festival’s closing gala on June 4 will see Loren [pictured in 2014 short Human Voice] – who is visiting Romania for the first time - receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Smith – who came to Romania to produce Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain in 2003 - will be presented with the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema on the same evening in Cluj’s National Theatre.
Competition
This year’s 12-strong Competition includes nine first features such as Bogdan Mirică’s Balkan anti-Western Dogs, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s horror film Shelley, and [link=nm...
- 5/27/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French sales outfit Wide Management has pre-sold drama Glory, the next film from the directorial duo behind festival award-winner The Lesson (Urok).
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are in post-production on the Bulgarian drama, which will be ready in time for Cannes and stars Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Italy’s I Wonder Pictures has snapped up the film, having previously acquired The Lesson, which it will release in March.
The Lesson debuted at Toronto 2014, was a finalist for the Lux Prize and won the new director’s award at San Sebastian.
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are in post-production on the Bulgarian drama, which will be ready in time for Cannes and stars Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Italy’s I Wonder Pictures has snapped up the film, having previously acquired The Lesson, which it will release in March.
The Lesson debuted at Toronto 2014, was a finalist for the Lux Prize and won the new director’s award at San Sebastian.
- 2/16/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ The most gifted actors are able to convey all emotion and inner anguish with their eyes alone. It's through the window to the soul of The Lesson's (2014) protagonist, Nade, that the directorial pairing of Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov - who also penned the script - tell an age-old allegory of right and wrong with a number of substantial twists, toppling dominoes with patient regularity in a spiralling tale of desperation. The film is built around a superb performance by Margita Gosheva, whose Nade strives to save her family from ignominy.
- 12/6/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Poverty and morality jostle in this gallows humour-heavy Bulgarian parable
Writer/directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s taut and at times unbearably painful tale of financial crisis in modern-day Bulgaria blends the humanist social-realism of the Dardenne brothers with a streak of borderline absurdist gallows humour – the jet black comedy of desperation.
Margita Gosheva is furiously watchable as Nadezhda, the schoolteacher who sternly lectures her pupils on the immorality of thieving while being privately driven to thuggish loan sharks and worse by her own dire straits. Let down by a wastrel husband who has squandered the security of their house (an early scene echoes the horrific opening of 99 Homes), “Nade” needs cash to stave off an imminent auction. But the company for whom she translates documents shows no signs of clearing her back pay and a crescendo of clerical errors, jobsworth deadlines and talismanic car trouble drives her to the brink of distraction.
Writer/directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s taut and at times unbearably painful tale of financial crisis in modern-day Bulgaria blends the humanist social-realism of the Dardenne brothers with a streak of borderline absurdist gallows humour – the jet black comedy of desperation.
Margita Gosheva is furiously watchable as Nadezhda, the schoolteacher who sternly lectures her pupils on the immorality of thieving while being privately driven to thuggish loan sharks and worse by her own dire straits. Let down by a wastrel husband who has squandered the security of their house (an early scene echoes the horrific opening of 99 Homes), “Nade” needs cash to stave off an imminent auction. But the company for whom she translates documents shows no signs of clearing her back pay and a crescendo of clerical errors, jobsworth deadlines and talismanic car trouble drives her to the brink of distraction.
- 12/6/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
This powerful drama concerns a schoolteacher trying to instil morality into her pupils while wrestling with other transgressions
There’s an awful fascination to this bleak movie from Bulgarian writer-directors Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva, whose feature debut has something of the deadpan drear and social satire of the new Romanian cinema.
Margita Gosheva is Nade, a schoolteacher with a thief in her class: someone has taken another pupil’s purse. Nade demands the thief confess; she threatens everyone with police, even makes the entire class donate a small sum to the victim for recompense so that everyone feels invested in finding the criminal. But at the very moment she takes this moral stand, Nade finds that her deadbeat husband has been secretly blowing money earmarked for mortgage repayments on repairing his stupid campervan; they could lose the house and now she desperately needs a cash loan.
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There’s an awful fascination to this bleak movie from Bulgarian writer-directors Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva, whose feature debut has something of the deadpan drear and social satire of the new Romanian cinema.
Margita Gosheva is Nade, a schoolteacher with a thief in her class: someone has taken another pupil’s purse. Nade demands the thief confess; she threatens everyone with police, even makes the entire class donate a small sum to the victim for recompense so that everyone feels invested in finding the criminal. But at the very moment she takes this moral stand, Nade finds that her deadbeat husband has been secretly blowing money earmarked for mortgage repayments on repairing his stupid campervan; they could lose the house and now she desperately needs a cash loan.
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- 12/3/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Someone has just stolen my wallet.
When a student's wallet is stolen, English teacher Nade (Margita Gosheva) takes the matter very seriously, using all her rhetorical skills to guilt the culprit into a confession. No one confesses. It weighs on her and she vows to teach the little thief a lesson. Things at home are pretty rocky as well. Her husband Mladen (Ivan Barnev), while a caring father, has a problem with alcohol and money. When the creditors threaten to take the house, Nade has to scramble to get the money together. She tries to shake down a deadbeat boss who has yet to pay her for her translation work. She takes out loans. She tries to get some money from her estranged father. At every turn, something goes wrong and Nade is living every moment on the edge of personal disaster. The impunity of that little thief looms larger and larger in her mind.
When a student's wallet is stolen, English teacher Nade (Margita Gosheva) takes the matter very seriously, using all her rhetorical skills to guilt the culprit into a confession. No one confesses. It weighs on her and she vows to teach the little thief a lesson. Things at home are pretty rocky as well. Her husband Mladen (Ivan Barnev), while a caring father, has a problem with alcohol and money. When the creditors threaten to take the house, Nade has to scramble to get the money together. She tries to shake down a deadbeat boss who has yet to pay her for her translation work. She takes out loans. She tries to get some money from her estranged father. At every turn, something goes wrong and Nade is living every moment on the edge of personal disaster. The impunity of that little thief looms larger and larger in her mind.
- 10/13/2015
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
Rams wins Special Jury Prize and Audience Award, The Treasure picks up Best Romanian Film at 14th Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj
Juan Schnitman’s The Fire has won the top prize at the 14th Transilvania International Film Festival (May 29-July 7).
The Argentinian relationship drama, which received its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, won the Transilvania Trophy and a €15,000 cash prize at the Cluj-Napoca event.
The Special Jury Prize, worth €1,500, and the audience award for one of the 12 first or second films by their directors in the international competition, went to Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams.
The Icelandic film won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last month.
The most popular film overall at the festival was Operation Arctic by Grethe Bøe-Waal from Norway, one of the countries in Focus at this year’s Tiff, along with Argentina.
Bulgarian-Greek hit The Lesson, which has already won a string of awards at Sofia, Thessaloniki, Gothenburg...
Juan Schnitman’s The Fire has won the top prize at the 14th Transilvania International Film Festival (May 29-July 7).
The Argentinian relationship drama, which received its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, won the Transilvania Trophy and a €15,000 cash prize at the Cluj-Napoca event.
The Special Jury Prize, worth €1,500, and the audience award for one of the 12 first or second films by their directors in the international competition, went to Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams.
The Icelandic film won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last month.
The most popular film overall at the festival was Operation Arctic by Grethe Bøe-Waal from Norway, one of the countries in Focus at this year’s Tiff, along with Argentina.
Bulgarian-Greek hit The Lesson, which has already won a string of awards at Sofia, Thessaloniki, Gothenburg...
- 6/8/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Ivan Ostrochovský’s boxer drama Goat (Koza) has been named Best Film at the 20th Vilnius International Film Festival.
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
- 4/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Playing upon the universality of being anxiously broke, Bulgarian filmmaking duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's stark, stealthy, and dispassionately shot social-realist drama traps viewers in what turns out to be a precisely paced, nightmarish thriller. The industriousness and Larry David–rivaling pedantry of rural small-town schoolteacher and mother Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) are introduced straightaway, as she obsessively vows to expose a young classroom thief. At home, her drunken deadbeat of a husband has also essentially stolen money by squandering the family's mortgage payments, leaving "Nade" just three days to save their home from the auction block. Frustrated by an employer facing its own insolvency, disillusioned by her family, and fucked over b...
- 3/4/2015
- Village Voice
The Lesson
Written and directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Greece, Bulgaria / 2014
The Lesson, from newcomers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, begins with a simple exercise: an English teacher in a small Bulgarian school giving her class the chance to anonymously return money stolen from one of the students. Yet the first couple attempts yield neither confession nor cash. From there the film spirals into an exploration of the moral codes we have for ourselves and others, and the detrimental effects of a society bound by capitalism.
Margita Gosheva stars as Nadya, the teacher who, after failing to discipline her students for the theft, returns home to find that her husband has been funneling the household income into a dead-end investment scheme. They have mere days to repay the bank before their home is foreclosed. Fearful that the couple and their young daughter will be forced out onto the streets,...
Written and directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Greece, Bulgaria / 2014
The Lesson, from newcomers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, begins with a simple exercise: an English teacher in a small Bulgarian school giving her class the chance to anonymously return money stolen from one of the students. Yet the first couple attempts yield neither confession nor cash. From there the film spirals into an exploration of the moral codes we have for ourselves and others, and the detrimental effects of a society bound by capitalism.
Margita Gosheva stars as Nadya, the teacher who, after failing to discipline her students for the theft, returns home to find that her husband has been funneling the household income into a dead-end investment scheme. They have mere days to repay the bank before their home is foreclosed. Fearful that the couple and their young daughter will be forced out onto the streets,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Misa Shikuma
- SoundOnSight
In Peter Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva's The Lesson, schoolteacher Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) discovers that there is a thief in her class and decides to not let this petty offense go unpunished. Unfortunately, as soon as she returns home, she finds a creditor ready to seize her family's house because of unpaid debt. Nadezhda has three days to find a large amount of money to save the house. The downward spiral that this young teacher faces, knocks down the door of her own moral and ethial system forcing her to trespass boundaries she would normally not dare to cross, while struggling to maintain a personal integrity and honor. Even though the main ingredients are quite familiar, The Lesson is not the usual social drama. Grozeva and...
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- 10/29/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Favorably recalling Mike Leigh and the latest from the Dardenne brothers, The Lesson features one of the year’s best low-key performances in Margita Gosheva. Shouldering the film almost entirely on her own, the actress stars as a teacher and mother facing financial collapse with unassuming determination. During the rare moments she ever looks ready to blow, her eyes explode wide open, and you get to see a Bulgarian Sally Hawkins waiting to happen. At all other times, though, Gosheva’s Nade is a rock of resilience worth following through the small town wringer that The Lesson puts her through.
For the first two thirds, the script from directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov works Nade through increasingly straining circumstances as a tribute to perseverance. As an educator, she shows great patience in the face of a student theft that compromises her shaky financial stability. As a mother, she sets...
For the first two thirds, the script from directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov works Nade through increasingly straining circumstances as a tribute to perseverance. As an educator, she shows great patience in the face of a student theft that compromises her shaky financial stability. As a mother, she sets...
- 9/5/2014
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
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