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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Shares the Romanian New Wave’s unsparing real-time pressure, dry social observation and procedural tension, following ordinary people through institutions that make a private emergency feel increasingly unbearable.
02
Why this pick
Cristi Puiu again turns cramped domestic space, talk and delays into a darkly funny, exhausting social ordeal, with long takes that expose grief, irritation and absurdity without sentimentality.
03
Why this pick
Its calm, observational style and accumulating moral compromises echo Lazarescu’s institutional bleakness, finding suspense in mundane bureaucracy and the fragile dignity of people under pressure.
04
Why this pick
A deadpan Romanian portrait of everyday hopes colliding with paperwork and practical obstacles; its patient pacing and understated comedy make small exchanges quietly revealing.
05
Why this pick
For the same willingness to linger with discomfort: an opaque, meticulously observed man moves through Bucharest’s routines in long, unhurried scenes that make ordinary behavior unsettling.
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01 / THE STORY
Dante Remus Lăzărescu (Ioan Fiscuteanu), a cranky retired engineer, lives alone as a widower with his three cats in a Bucharest apartment. In the grip of extreme pain, Lăzărescu calls for an ambulance, but when none arrives, he asks for his neighbors' help. Not having the medicine Lăzărescu wants, the neighbors give him some pills for his nausea. A neighbor reveals that Lăzărescu is a heavy drinker. His neighbor helps Lăzărescu back to his apartment and to bed. They call again for an ambulance.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lăzărescu Dante Remus
Mioara Avram
Sandu Sterian
Mariana
Dr. Zamfir
Misu
Ambulantier
Dr. Mirica
