It is really difficult to call Malmkrog a film. This wants to be the epitome of Romanian "cinema" that started decades ago the obnoxious trend of long wide shots of people standing at the kitchen table doing nothing, excruciating never-ending dialogues about nothing, 15-minute hand-held shots of people walking on the street, discount photography and barely no sound design, not to even mention the sub-par audio engineering, mixing and recording. It's hard to understand why anyone would finance something like this, except for Cristi Puiu's name, a director that to this day is better known for his commercials than his movies. And those commercials were created and written by an ad agency, go figure!
Anyway, Malmkrog can be better catalogued as a cinematic talk-show rather than cinema. It contains the fabulations (or ranting if you will) of a drunkard with split personality that keeps rambling on and on about... basically about nothing. This should've remained in its book form or at least made as an audiobook. But definitely NOT a movie!
Anyway, Malmkrog can be better catalogued as a cinematic talk-show rather than cinema. It contains the fabulations (or ranting if you will) of a drunkard with split personality that keeps rambling on and on about... basically about nothing. This should've remained in its book form or at least made as an audiobook. But definitely NOT a movie!