Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Romania, 150 minutes, 2005
Under the indifference of her three cats, Dante Remus Lazarescu lives alone among the beige walls of his cramped apartment. His sister lives in a nearby village, his daughter immigrated to Canada, his wife died ten years. But this is not just a day ahead in the life of an ordinary man. Since its awakening, he suffers from pains in the head and stomach. To turn off the pain, he gave of drugs, gets drunk homemade potions. Evil persists. He resigns himself to call for an ambulance to pick her home dirty and messy. While awaiting emergency vehicle, a couple neighbor takes care of it with limited resources. Dizziness face of Dante, the man tries to reason about his alcohol abuse, after he vomited ale of bile and blood, the woman offers her moussaka.
The ambulance finally arrived, and the old Romanian is supported by a paramedical nurse. Unwittingly, she becomes the guardian angel of the patient until the end of his journey. In an emergency room to another, they all face the emergency overflow, insolence towards patients, cumbersome bureaucracy hospital, lack of respect for doctors to lower strata of the medical hierarchy ...
Lazarescu's case worsens over the trip, while his right side is paralyzed and slowly his mind s'embrume. What he suffers? Simple drunkenness, formerly treated ulcer or colon tumor? The following assumptions, but not confirmed until he passes a brain scan. The long road ends finally in a hospital friendly, humanitarian spirit, which lies on a metal gurney in human sixties between life and death. Ultimately, the film solves the riddle of the name to reach the mythical protagonist: the shift in hospitals in circles of hell Dante, death in the hands of relatives as Remus and disease like Lazarus, the resurrected Christ and the patron of lepers in the Middle Ages. In a spirit
documentary, Cristi Puiu gives a brilliant ode to mortality with the greenish hue, with a camera as nervous as accurate. The odyssey of a man condemned to death emerges a touching allegory on the universal themes: loneliness and aging, ethics and be human dignity and death. At the center of the ballet at the hospital staged naturalistic performance stands the colossal Ion Fiscuteanu, who lends his body to fully play the role of poor patient handling, stripped and shaved. Despite the heavy subject, the Romanian film avoids the trap of misery by black humor in the dialogues. Second feature filmmaker spent a painter, Death of Mr. Lazarescu has received several awards internationally, including the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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