I guess there is no one that have ever touched a 'device' with the ability to record video and audio - knowingly or unknowingly to the audience and not to notice the idea of Emil floating in one's mind.
Very good approach to the character development, dynamic narrative and a pinch of aristocracy, which unfortunately lacks in the 'modern' Bulgarian society today.
Worth watching, regardless of the nationality though. Definitely recommended.
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3 Reviews
Must see and an instant all-time classic as it is from Guy Ritchie!
4 September 2018
An excellent example of contemporary, non-Hollywood, British grit and wit masterpiece.
Subtle thread bonds you and guides you, walking-through a fantasy adventure, in a fast pace. It is a rare gift to watch a movie these days and be trilled. You'll have your goosebumps at some point, indeed :)
The details and stylistics disappointing some viewers, will be the other bunch's most admired moments and messages.
Definitively will be seen again and again, just for the sake of pure viewer's pleasure.
Subtle thread bonds you and guides you, walking-through a fantasy adventure, in a fast pace. It is a rare gift to watch a movie these days and be trilled. You'll have your goosebumps at some point, indeed :)
The details and stylistics disappointing some viewers, will be the other bunch's most admired moments and messages.
Definitively will be seen again and again, just for the sake of pure viewer's pleasure.
The truth about a nation has many faces, though the facts can show some of it's nature
10 October 2010
As soon as the movie meets the audience (especially a particular group of generations) it feels like classics. Inspired by auto-biog novel of Ilija Trojanov published in 1996 and directed in 2008 by Stephan Komandarev (coevals born in the middle of Communist era in Sofia, Bulgaria) this move is devoted to the people that were rendered "enemies of the nation" in their own country. Bai Dan is a real Bulgarian (it is worth noting that the role is played by the Serbian, Miki Manojlovic - Underground (1995)) which everyone will agree had met at least once in his life. He is a dice master who knows how to deal with the chances in life, he is brave, he is wild and yet he is naturally wise and humble Christian. Now it is time to play he's most important game - he have to help his grandson to find his lost soul. The personage's character is really admirable and like everything else in the move is marked by the natural charisma of the intelligent masterpiece. There are a lot of background symbols throughout the script and as the movie answers a lot, it inevitably opens the Pandora's box defining the post-communist societies in Eastern Europe. Political issues are presented in a skillful adjunct with the personal drama and doesn't bother with details and references more than necessary while standing in the heat zone. Perfect camera, astonishing sight-seeings - this move is a real advertisement and an open invitation for the artists and the common EU travelers.
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