Parkingthe film aired last Thursday TVR Culturalthe Romanian premiere took place in the summer of 2019. It generated rather mediocre interest, despite the fact that it is a Romanian-Spanish co-production, that several very good actors ours they were associated with first-class Spanish actors, that it has rather long uncensored sex scenes, that one of the themes is the theme of emigration, and that the action takes place in the so-called louches milieux, where people sometimes settle scores with arson, destruction, bullets and guns.

Critics have been somewhat more favorable to the film than ticket-paying audiences. It happens.

This film is director Tudor Giurgiu’s fourth feature-length project and is based on a screenplay written by him and Transylvanian writer Marin Malaiku-Hondrari. This is taken from his novel proximity, released in 2010. The film takes Adrian’s story from Gondrari’s autobiographical works. Alter ego of the novelist. Like him, Adrián was born in Singeorge Baia, came to Spain illegally, settled in Córdoba, where he did menial and poorly paid work, quickly learned Spanish and was overcome with longing for family and home. He left not for money, but because after 30 years of living in a small room, he also felt the need for something else. As we shall see, he got it something more excessively.

In the film, Adrian feels the need to periodically recall fragments of his childhood. It does so in a cinematic way, with quotable sequences shot on 16mm as if they were cut from the productions of The Great Mutt (superb cinematographer as always by Marius Panduru), well punctuated by a soundtrack signed by Julio de la Rosa. Hondrari returned to Romania in 2007, during which time he published a collection of poems. Something similar happens with Adrian. The most outstanding interpreter of the character is Mihai Smarandake, an actor of the Theater named after Odeumwhere he now performs an absolutely exemplary role Cabaret, unfortunately ignored by the UNITER jury – from time to time gives way to the child Robert Zotti. Hadrian’s interpreter as a child. Which is guarded by Fulep Erzhebet (mother) and Valentyn Popescu (father).

The expatriate Adrian, a tall, handsome, bearded guy, a nonconformist intellectual, is now melancholy, now sad, now delighted to have killed yet another rat, one of the many roaming the parking lot. The owner, whose name is Rafael, played by Luis Bermejo with a great sense of proportion, is engaged in a not very clean business. For which you will pay, in the end, with your life. The relationship between Rafael, his wife Mercedes (Ariadne Gill) – also referred to as Mercedes and the car that will cause Rafa’s troubles – and Adrian is generally good until things get complicated for the boss. Adrian’s life will also become more complicated. Not only because they participate volens nolens in what Rafa does, but especially because he falls in love with Maria. Rock singer. Played by Belen Cuesta.

From this moment on, the rhythm of the film changes. The monotony, which some criticized the play, is otherwise natural, since the life of the non-hero Adrian was monotonous, is replaced by dramatic confrontations between the characters, arguments whether about money or women, until the end of the marriage of Adrian, whose wife Cristina (Carmen Florescu), unexpectedly came to Spain, loaded – how else? – with pots of sardines, muffins and sausage, she finds herself being cheated on, carjacked and murdered. And returning home. – Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro