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Buna! Ce faci? (2010) is a Romanian movie. Alexandru Maftei has directed this movie. Dana Voicu,Ionel Mihailescu,Paul Octavian Diaconescu,Jordi Gràcia are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2010. Buna! Ce faci? (2010) is considered one of the best Comedy,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters in a constant state of sexual arousal surround them. Their libidinous teen son, whose hilarious voiceover commentary intermittently provides important narrative information, prides himself on being the high school stud and aspires to a career in porn. Gabriela's sexy employee switches boyfriends the way she changes clothes. And despite being married, Gabriel's colleague is working his way through the female members of their orchestra. Ultimately, the two Gabys find their virtual affairs reconnect them with their own desires, but in a way less movie-fantasy and more satisfyingly real-life.
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Buna! Ce faci? (2010) Reviews
A well-handled romantic comedy
"Buna! Ce faci?" is an honest and jolly film, slightly tendered with melancholy. It treats the theme of love reflected in the life of a long- married couple that has a rebellious teenager son. I also salute the poster of the film, with its vintage-design and its capacity to slightly introduce the viewer to a world of love, indifference and self- finding, regardless the age, ideas that reflect themselves in a well-handled and well written script. Thumbs up to the casting and settings, as well. All in all, I recommend this film and I wish we (the Romanians) produce more and more such romantic comedies.
A pleasantly surprising Romanian romantic-comedy
So i decided one day to go and see "Hello! How are you?". As i entered the cinema i started mentally preparing myself for an artsy flick with satiric humor based on morbid irony that in the end would leave me with a slightly bad taste in my mouth but because of which i could brag that i had seen a deep and meaningful motion picture. No more than five minutes into it i was surprised to see the rear end of a beautiful young woman performing oral sex on an adolescent male. I don't mean to be shallow, it's just that the movie states right from the beginning that it will most definitely not bore you. Don't get me wrong, this is not your average toilet humor, foul language and drug abuse infested teen comedy. If I were to describe the plot and feel of the movie by comparison with other motion pictures, the exposition describes a family much like the one in "American Beauty" while the teenage lead develops in a matter familiar with "Liceenii", with a lot more intercourse. However, the solutions to the problems that the characters encounter are very different, as their personality. The first thing that I noticed that was significantly different from what i was used to as far as Romanian movies go was the incredible camera work (and probably post-production). The cinematography in "Hello! How are you?" is exceptional by any standard. No movie of any genre or type comes to mind with better camera work. Every scene is adequately lit, with no obvious additional spot lights or flood lights, keeping everything as natural as possible. Characters and items are very well centered, and frequent use of depth of field and focus techniques to keep the audience alert even when the camera is still. The attention to detail is astonishing, the film being riddled with very minutely crafted closeups (makeup artists also deserve credit here). A lot of scenes are reminiscent of very modern and youthful video advertisements with the characters being followed by the camera as they walk around the capital with little else happening while lines of chat fill in the storyline. Unfortunately, the choice of font for the aforementioned text is lacking, consisting of "Times New Roman" which i find down right appalling. A Humanist typeface similar to Segoe WP would have blended in far better. However, i was pleased with there rest of the typography choices. A lot painstaking work has obviously gone into the soundtrack, from opera voices singing the lines of the characters to piano music synchronized to keyboard presses, yet another aspect of the film that raises the bar. The acting is at the very least good. I find the para-verbal, nonverbal communication as well as body language in this movie to be very challenging for the actors but they did not disappoint. Some lines are exaggerated to emphasize the comical effect while others are numbed for the same reason. I've never found Romanian humor this appealing before. Situational humor is abundant. I will admit, "Hello! How are you?" might be more properly savored by Romanians, simply because the whole context feels familiar. However, it is in no way unaccessible for the rest of the audience, on the contrary, it offers a delightful depiction of a modern Romanian family. As far as the plot goes, character evolution, development and motivation is adequate, enticing and unexpected in some aspects. I was puzzled somewhat by the sudden change of personality in the lead teenage character, which went from Casanova to physics geek overnight. In my opinion the vanity, arrogance and confidence that comes with exercising your masculinity with such a frequency at that age should develop the character very differently and frequent outbursts of melancholy and even self pity and disappointment mixed with anxiety are not compatible with such testosterone levels, albeit we are talking about a hormone governed teenager. The script comforts the audience up to a certain point with predictable turns of events, however, the suspense builds up progressively and the climax comes when least expected, following a different narrative approach than what the viewers were used to up to that point. The denouement is somewhat open ended and remarkably optimistic despite the brake-up that the family undergoes. Finishing his right of passage the young male character defines himself, thus establishing his identity as an adult.
A Romanian comedy that simply makes you feel good
"Hello! How are you?" deals with several main topics - growing up of a teenager, crisis of middle-aged people, boredom in marriage, unfulfilled dreams and desire. Although the topics suggest a serious drama, the film is actually a romantic comedy, the type that really deserved my thumbs up. During the second half, I was a little afraid that it would turn to clichés, such as we often see in Hollywood blockbusters, but luckily, this was not the case here. The story is not predictable, it seems realistic and it brings eastern European atmosphere in a positive and jolly way. The characters are vivid, the actors excellent in portraying them (both the leading and supporting roles), the direction is superb, with many unexpected scene details and surprising elements you discover gradually. I suppose that most comedy lovers would enjoy the film the same as I did, and as did the audience at Vukovar Film Festival 2011. There were many scenes that made everyone burst out laughing. It's one of the films that simply makes you feel good after seeing it.
Interesting Comedy-Drama
Gabriel and Gabriela are a 40ish couple with a seventeen year old son, living a mundane and passionless existence, in modern day Romania. They coexist, each just going through the motions of a marriage with no meaning left in it. One night, without knowing it, each of them wind up in the same chat room on the internet, conversing with a supposed stranger. Day after day, the two grow more and more comfortable in the anonymity of cyberspace, and believe that they are falling in love with each other. Gabriela goes to work as a dry cleaner and Gabriel is a page turner for an orchestra. Meanwhile, their son, Vladimir narrates the story, which includes his frequent and funny sexual escapades with fellow young and willing classmates. He reminded me of Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin in "The Graduate." The three leads of this nuclear family are excellent; they seem to be a real family struggling to get by each day, and in the end I wished for a happy ending. A very impressive comedy-drama.
A lovely & original real people Rom-Com from Romania
I saw this film as part of the Romanian Film Festival in NYC. What a wonderful feel-good movie. It was funny but not in the cheesy Rom-Com traditional way. It was smart, & original, the whole idea of meeting someone "new" online only to end up chatting with your spouse is genius. I also liked that the couple was older & middle class, not the rich twenty-somethings that have become the norm in this genre. Throughout the whole feature I kept hoping I never end up being as sad & unmotivated as the main characters were; yet you feel & root for these two flawed individuals so they can find the happiness they so much crave within themselves. I really enjoyed the teenage son & the other laundry employee. They were hilarious, over the top, crazy and content, they went after what they wanted, made mistakes and learned from them. They weeded out what was unnecessary. They did everything that the married couple were too afraid to do. I love how the film gives you a peak inside a Romanian family, they are not that different from us, they have the same struggles, hopes & dreams. I love how carefully they approached the use of computers and how addicted they became to the whole new world the internet brought them. The irony of the film is based on how people desire what they already have, yet they don't realize it has always been there. You can't expect others to give you happiness unless you give it to yourself first. Once the characters realized this, their relationship took a whole new turn... for the better.