Mircea Dzianu, the main character of the film Dad moves mountains Writer and director Daniel Sandu, broadcast last Thursday on TVR Cultural, retired today. He had once been an intelligence officer, holding a key position in the SRI and, given his age, probably also in the old Securitate. Now has the rank of general in reserve. Some time ago he left his old family, his wife Paula and his son Kosmin, who is now a student, he remarried a much younger woman named Alina. He is just preparing to move to a new house. He and Alina are expecting a child. It even looks like the general is dyeing his hair. They should keep up. He is doomed not to grow old. To be infallible even in the fight against the years. Or at least he thinks so.

Mircea Gianu unexpectedly receives a phone call (this is the real mobile phone inflation in Daniel Sandu’s film) and bad news. His son from his first marriage and his girlfriend were lost in the Buchegi Mountains. Hurry there, look for a team Salvation and, as before, gives orders. The saviors who have to do everything and who are not allowed to even say that the delusions are somehow to blame, and then the former colleagues. Which come on an unauthorized mission, equipped with equipment to help find strays.

There is no way for Mircea Jiang. The former officer believes that he and his men have the right to absolutely everything. That it has zero priority. That he has both the right and the power to move mountains. Only at some point his body refuses. The mountain is invincible, it is high, and the last part of the film emphasizes this.

I learned this Dad moves mountains will have a starting point in the real case. So that the heroes have correspondents in reality. perhaps. This case, apart from all the personal tragedies it contains, is a common one. Kosmin and his girlfriend are not the only ones who broke the rules, got lost in the mountains and ended tragically. General Jiangu is not the first and not the last to overestimate his strength. And who must survive the tragic hour of reckoning. In its main features, the film does not go beyond anodyne. About someone who could not contribute to changing the perception of Romanian viewers of local cinematographic production. As he expressed his hope in an interview in 2021, the year of the award. Anodyne, which also depends on the persistence with which the director returns to the presentation of the tourist beauties of the area (perfectly appreciated by the image signed by Tudor Volodymyr Panduru), as if Dad moves mountains it would be a commissioned production commissioned by the now-forgotten ONT “Karpaty”.

Only – thank God! – not only the devil is in the details. Sometimes good things too. What would they be in the case of a Daniel Sandu film? First, the actors. In my opinion, Adrian Titiani (Mirce Gianu), and Elena Purea (Paula), and Judith State (Alina), and Radu Botar (Doru), and Petronela Grigorescu (Valentina), and Virgil Ioanei (Laurentiou) also play very good roles ), and Tudor Smolyanu (Filip). Then there are some key sequences in the film. Like the one in which Jianu is indifferent to the desperate pleas of a character named Tourist Mom, in which Natalia Kelin looks great. Also good are the moments when the apparently recalcitrant Lupu (Bohdan Nechifor) voluntarily joins those paid by a former officer to look for his child, and the moments when Mircea Jianu seems to agree to let go of his self-centered attitude and finally makes a gesture of humanity. , and the collector’s diploma, and of course the sequence of Jiang’s husband’s physical impotence. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro