Directed by Cristi PuiuRated R
2005
153 minutes
**** 1/2
Much like the films of the Dardenne brothers, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days or United 93, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, about an old man being pushed carelessly from hospital to hospital on a rainy Romanian night, doesn't create drama. It simply lets it's story unfold, and if drama should happen to come about, then it captures it. Otherwise, this is a brilliantly frank story of the problems with Romania's health-care system, and the cruelness some of its doctors can exhibit under stress.
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