Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time

This movie is directed by an old amateur who has been stuck in time.. This film is dust in the eye.. A black-and-white movie in 2018 ... What a Shame!

I really liked the movie, despite the white and black colours (which seems logical but is a bit more tough to digest). Horatiu is really acting great and what i don't get is why they claim that the contribution of Dumitru Caramitru was exceptional when he only had 3 lines 🤐

Awesome actors, awesome details.

But it's a disaster from lightning and grading point of view. I never saw something sooo bad in my life. After 30 mins I had headaches. So annoying to try to focus your eyes on a subject and to understand what is happening. Looks like this was the proof that romanian cinematography is dead.

"Morometii" is a very good dramatization of Marin Preda's novel, depicting the life of a typical peasant family in rural Romania during the late 1940's.

The "film noir" image is not for everyone, but I find that it depicts perfectly the dark times the family was going through. It is also in line with the prequel "Morometii 1978" which was also shot in black&white for the same reason.

The actors are some of the best Romania has ever produced, acting is incredible and the storyline very very good. Highly recommended!

Based on a famous novel of Romanian writer Marin Preda, is full of fine linguistic humor and mirrors very well a disturbed and ravished post-WW2 peasant society, torn between right and wrong, the vanity of the young and backward-looking of the elderly, old and new, moral and immoral and between two antagonistic political regimes. The black-and-white (how else) picture adds up to the nostalgia and historical feel of otherwise a pure social drama.