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California Dreamin'

California Dreamin'

2007 · 155 min · RO · 6.5 (65 votes)
Dir. Cristian Nemescu · Starring Armand Assante, Răzvan Vasilescu, Jamie Elman, Maria Dinulescu, Ion Sapdaru, Alexandru Mărgineanu
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1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. Their arrival in this small village dramatically changes its landscape.

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A darkly comic, yet deeply melancholic look at how distant conflicts and bureaucratic absurdity disrupt the quiet isolation of a remote village. It's a slow, observational drift through a landscape waiting for change.

melancholicabsurdistwrybleakslow-burnRomanian New Wavearthousedry humorobservationalwarabsurditybureaucracyisolation
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