Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Errington_92 The Death of Mr Lazarescu is a bleak intimate tale in which we witness a helpless old man becoming the subject of folly in a cynical view of society.We get to know the protagonist Mr Lazarescu very intimately thanks to the film being shot in the style of a documentary, as if we are voyeuring into Mr Lazarescu's life. By becoming voyeurs we see the sad state he lives in, alone in a flat full of cats as his only companions after his family broke down with the death of his wife and his daughter moving away. This helps create sympathy in the audience towards Mr Lazarescu as a character as well as for the dreadful situation he soon finds himself in. Thinking he has become ill due to his ulcer Mr Lazarescu seeks help from his neighbours who although give him help and support before going to seek medical attention, they treat him like a child. Talking to him in a condescending manner as they think he is drunk, it makes Mr Lazarescu even more of a lonely figure as he is shown to be a victim of ignorance within human nature. Watching him as a helpless person whilst his neighbours pass the time by talking about themselves and criticising Mr Lazarescu, it builds up a feeling of annoyance with the characters as a voyeur on par with the vulnerability Mr Lazarescu must have felt.The vulnerability and annoyance of Mr Lazarescu and ourselves respectively becomes even bigger as Mr Lazarescu tries to speak his mind amidst the patronisation from everyone around him. The most recurring behavioural aspect from the people meant to be helping Mr Lazarescu is one of arrogance and disrespect. Being called a pig by one doctor, attempting to tell another about a possibility traumatic childhood experience before they walk away from him and being accused of not wanting to sign a surgical sign even though he is in a dazed state. Everyone seems to view Mr Lazarescu as nothing more than a pathetic old man which is the core of the cynical theme for The Death of Mr Lazarescu. They do not seem or care to understand Lazarescu's true character and act as if he is not worth their time. They would rather have discussions amongst themselves joking around and being pre occupied with their lives. The shabby treatment of Mr Lazarescu is not the only way we are shown a mostly misanthropic society but to a lesser extent we also experience the treatment of Medic Mioara amongst her own colleges.She is the only person who seems truly interested in the welfare of Mr Lazarescu, trying to make a number of doctors understand the seriousness of his situation by explaining his symptoms and diagnosis to them. Instead of thanks Mioara gets berated with verbal abuse accusing her of arrogance and superiority when it is the other way around. Just as we watched and sympathised with Mr Lazarescu, we do the same for Mioara as we experience the awkwardness she feels for trying to do her job. Again it comes back to the critique of society as a cynical place which benefits no one. Here the documentary style of The Death of Mr Lazarescu gives the narrative a very realistic feel which makes us having to watch Mioara being unfairly treated quite uncomfortable, making Mioara's mental and emotional fatigue a shared experience with us.The Death of Mr Lazarescu ends with Mr Lazarescu now helpless waiting for surgery whilst Mioara moves on to continue with her work. It brings the bleakness to full circle as we can only speculate what happens next, most likely the grim reality of his death and the world wouldn't really care. No matter how bleak The Death of Mr Lazarescu is, it is a haunting realistic tragedy which reflects the indifference side of human nature done superbly with the realistic techniques used to structure the narrative and to absorb us into the film's view of cynicalism.

MarraMara It was the most impressing movie i've seen in a really long time. I almost have no words to describe it. Inspired from hypochondria that has hunted him for years, and the medical system in Romania, Cristi Puiu directs a very realistic masterpiece. You, the viewer are practically the third person in the movie. After a while you feel like you are there, in the action, and it's nothing you can do to help Mr. Lazarescu. The actors are doing as well,a very good job. Excellent actors like Florin Zamfirescu, Ion Fiscuteanu, are simply amazing. They portrait perfectly the east-European way of being.The movie it's genius, and deeply moving. I recommend it with my entire heart.

pontifikator This movie took awhile to get going. I was worried for several long minutes that I'd wasted my time and money renting it. Eventually, I got totally wrapped up in Mr. Lazarescu and his troubles and his helpers. It's a sad story about an alcoholic who is shunted from hospital to hospital with a seemingly minor problem. It's not that the health care workers don't care; the ambulance crew clearly does. It's just a lot of overburdened workers with problems of their own. The movie is done as if it were a documentary or reality TV show, and you really lose yourself in the story.SPOILERS:It's an absorbing movie, and the end is somewhat ambiguous. The version I saw had a key scene truncated to that it's not clear that he died. The scene was cut, but the sound was left in, so you're left with a black screen. The missing visual is the camera retreating from the view of Mr. Lazarescu's back - we're left seeing his body on the bed.

alokparanjape I thought the film, above all was a brilliantly crafted, perfectly paced film. Its narrative was so well developed that the film, like life, lent itself to a lot of interpretation. What I found most intriguing was the power dynamics in the whole medial system and then by extension in the society. The colourful old man with his cats in his apartment is the king to start off with. He has supreme authority, he's the owner of the house. He enjoys freedom to drink, to live the way he wants, and he's not about to entertain anybody's objections to the way he lives his own life. The moment he requires someone else's help, he loses his authority. The neighbour who's better than him is now in control. then the nurse, then the doctors, then the doctors, then the doctors. every time as one person loses his authority, Mr. lasarescue becomes more and more insignificant. because he becomes more and more dependent. By the end of it, he becomes so insignificant, that when he's lying limp on the stretcher, stripped naked, the camera holds him for a moment, and then, it does not even matter whether he's dead or alive. The entire process, his entire journey in the film is a constantly gradual degradation of his independence, his freedom and his dignity as a person, as a human being. This entire journey is the death of his personality, his significance. This is The Death of Mr. Lasarescue.Can't wait to see more from this director!