Zavera

You can find this one for free on Romanian CINEPUB, at that rate, it's well worth a watch. It is classically Romanian cinema in its dry philosophy, we come in, we go out, there's no big epiphany. Ninety minutes flat, who makes 90 minute movies any more, in 2019?

But actually, Stefan's life has been completely turned upside down, when Nic's sudden death forces him to realise, what a deceiver his mate was, how much Nic's conned him, all his life in fact.

Does the director shout this at you? Nope, he almost deliberately looks straight ahead, or looks the other way. Stefan's enlightenment comes to him in slow degrees, in random moments of frustration with his wife, casual remarks from the accountant at work, fooling around with his rifle, oblique reveals from Nic's old friends.

Tonally, mood wise, Romanian cinema seems quite different to most European cinema, maybe the astringent Russian directors are an exception, like the guy who made Leviathan.