Retreat Vama Veche

Even if I would have wanted to spoil it, I couldn't have done it as the screenplay is too obvious. It's a low quality movie and I don"t know if it can be included in the comedy genre. It looks like some friends decided to do a movie for the need of appearing on tv. Same typologies as seen in other low quality movies, same lines, same situations. I have to admit that after the first half I started to do different things in my home so the time would fly quicker. I think the only attractive thing about this movie is the title, that's all. Even if the action takes place in Vama Veche, don't expect to see any interesting thing from there, as the movie has been filmed out of season (spring, I guess) when there's no soul there.

Aahhh... the Mondays of cinematography...

Sometimes the Romanian art enablers just have COVID ... And too much money. It's baffling to me how this got greenlighted (there's nothing original in the story, nothing about Vama Veche, nothing relatable)

I've seen better acting from pebbles rolling down a hill.

Really looking forward for better Romanian movies!

A couple of years ago, I've been invited at a local short film festival that presented 4 different cliche stories (for Romanians): first movie was about the man that beats his wife, the second about children abandoned by their families who went to work in other countries... etc. Those movies, as this one, had no value to me, to the public, to the ones that made them... After the festival, the directors were invited on tothe scene for a short q and a. And some of them had the audacity to say that these movies were made "on their knees" (meaning in a hurry) because there was money to be spent (there is a State institution that overlooks art / movies). THIS WAS EXACTLY THAT.

It's a bad movie. Director, screenwriter, actors, absolutely all of them seem to be poor amateurs who met to produce a crappy movie.

The actresses are talentless, full of mannerisms, they play unnatural, forced, artificial, even embarrassingly weak.

The script is flat, with banal, witless, boring or even annoying lines.

The montage is incoherent, although we want it to be dynamic and fun

Directing? It's like it doesn't even exist. Did this movie really have a director?

Don't waste time to watch it. There are a thousand and one much more interesting things that you can do during this time.

In conclusion, I give grade 1.

Really bad movie: poor acting, poor lines, I cannot belive this movie is so bad. I had the feeling that they did it on purpose to be this bad!!!

The dialogue is very stupid, it is a disaster!

I would not recommend wasting even 5 min of your time to watch this crap!

It is a joke!

Also, the fact that Adela Popescu brought her husband and child to play in this stupid movie, its disgusting. Confirms me once again why I do mot like this lady and her arogance.

Also, some characters are not even actors : like Adelina Pestritu and the guy that owns some night clubs and restaurants. Did these guys paid to appear in this crap???

This was probably meant to be a tiktok story, turned out too long when editing so they tried to see if cinema is a better fit. Fear not, Romanian content quality rating won't suffer too much, just like TikTok videos, lowest quality in the world in script, direction, "actors" play. Don't be fooled, none of them are actually actors, they are old-fashioned influencers trying to grow their online profile through this. Don't waste your time on it. Go, watch a real movie, this is not one of them. Such a waste of time and space on the streaming platforms and waste of money like most recent Romanian movies that are being made.