I can’t find any excuse for putting the film in one pot Taxi drivers and cinematic underproduction Team building. The fact that the names of both have the same initials, that Kosmin Nedelku appears in both (and he is not the only actor who appears in both casts), that both use lewd language in one and the other, that both Taxi drivers and also Team building they are not and do not aspire to feature film status, or what they have achieved or will be successful at home does not warrant such a comparison.

Yes, that is very true. As I said, both of them feature Kosmin Nedelku, an actor known to the general public (and) thanks to his pseudonym Small. Only in Taxi drivers an actor who for many years specialized in stand up comedy who I hear is doing well, he is given a completely different character and role than the ones we’ve seen him in to date. And they fix it properly. Almost the same thing happens with Andy Vasluianu, who until now About people and snails, was considered simply an ideal translator for representatives of the new working class. Andi Vasluianu plays Mircha here. Extremely self-absorbed talk show host. Moreover, it is much more refined and with more cosmetics (yes, it is possible!) than, for example. Marius Tuka.

And in taxi drivers, and in Team building it hears bad words bad words. Only what was used in the second film with guilty lust, with the obvious intention of being and thus pleasing the audience, expected to rush into the cinema hall (which actually happened) to get for them, according to Brecht, poor pleasures that is, thick laughter, here, in Taxi drivers, has septicemia. Everything is completely justified, both humanly and artistically. The champion in their pronunciation in the film directed by Bohdan Teodor Olteanu based on the script written by him in collaboration with Adrian Nicolae is the taxi driver Lika. macho Beauty. Idol of women. Please, and customers. It is not for nothing that she is dressed in a red sports suit. The copy is played by Aleksandra Ion. One of the best actors of the young generation. Who is not only expressive, is not only what is called a strong innate talent, but also intelligent, cultured and a perfect master of his craft. The corresponding words put into his mouth (but also the words of other characters, for example, Victoria and Ilinka) are completely de-semanticized here. Probably, that’s why this taxi driver, who talks a lot, is called that babbler, because this is the only way we know from the time of Moliere what all Don Juans should be, who very often do it completely without a veil – this is the character of the film who becomes the closest to you, the most sympathetic. With whom you really want to go for a beer, to listen to him, to help him overcome the mental crisis that comes after, at the end of his journey to end of the nightthe masks are off, and you’ve already learned what his and his co-workers’ and victim’s vulnerabilities are. This good guy, the bread of God, a faithful man, in love with his own wife to the end of the world, played wonderfully by another very good young actor. His name is Rolando Matsangos. Because of everything that both play, like Viktoriya Railyanu (quasi-neurotic Victoria) and Maria Popistashu (tough, philosophical Ilinka), performers of the main female roles, or other members of the cast (to those already named, I must add Monika Birladyan, Madalina Stoika, Vlad Jonuts Popescu, absolutely wonderful in the silent field, Nicolet Hinka, Alex Mirchoi) Taxi drivers it is quite different than Team building. And it is even more than a species Bucharest at night.

Taxi drivers it was, before it became a movie, a very good play and an absolutely wonderful piece of theater. The play is also written by Bohdan Teodor Olteanu and Adrian Nicolae (the latter appears in the film for no more than 30 seconds, in which it is still clear that he is a very good actor), directing the show at Teatrull Apollo 111 it was also signed by Bohdan Teodor Olteanu.

Both the series, which premiered in 2018, and the film, which was released in 2023, belong to the genre of comics. However, both are sad and sentimental without falling into melodramatics. They are realistic. Maybe the show was a little tighter, more focused. So it seemed to me then. That was probably the reason why I wrote it at the time of the premiere Taxi drivers from Apollo 111 it resembles the rules of classical theater through concentration. In the film, everything seems to be looser, as if there is too much, which was insisted on by the director, cinematographer Marius Apopei and the editor Tudor D. Popescu. geography small shops where heroes go and meet. The arguments between Veronika (Medalina Stojka) and Liviu, as well as the argument between Liviu and Victoria, in which they show signs of a final rift, could have withstood the intervention of the scissors.

Not everything is perfect in Taxi drivers. But there is no doubt that we are dealing with a good film. And especially from the cinema clever. Watching this gives us another opportunity to see how many good young actors we have. And to say that I would like to see them more often on theater stages, on television, and on big screens. But also the fact that something must be done to support the distribution of domestic cinema. The Minister of Culture, Mr. Lucian Romaškanu, promised us that he has, that he will have some kind of plan for this. But what does the Romanian woman not promise! I don’t know why I get the impression that since the beginning of January he has been in a (pre-)electoral ecstasy that should be feared. He is forced to appear on small screens, saying something like Lika at patriotic feasts with z de Song of Romaniaplans with knives and glasses to redeem a Kindness of the Earth, and yesterday evening he gave such a solo concert – what to see? – at the scene Romanian opera from Yass. With the permission of the temporary management there. That it’s just not in vain temporarily. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro