Elvetianul
3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.
Raymond Duffin
Бухарест, 1911 год. Молодой актер, страстно увлеченный развитием кинематографа, решает снять фильм о войне за независимость Румынии 1877 года, войне, в которой столкнулись в противоборстве румыны, русские и турки. Ему предстоит идеологическая, политическая и даже внутрисемейная борьба, чтобы доказать, что кинематограф все-таки станет полноправным видом искусства…
Jerome
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
