Dumnezeu la saxofon, dracu la vioară (2004)
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Duration.........: 43 min
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Subtitles: English hardcoded
Language: Romanian 2 channels
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Scurta descriere in limba engleza si romana
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Eating, sleeping, popping pills; eating, sleeping, popping pills; and sleeping again. These are the only activities that seem to enliven the everyday life of 300 people living in a Romanian psychiatric home, in a forgotten region somewhere between the capital of Bucharest and the southern Carpathians. The unvarying cycle that the body adopts, between medication and wakefulness, resembles the movement of the old oil pumps that constitute the landscape surrounding the home. Substituting as an inmate of the asylum, the camera attempts to show us from the inside this daily monotony, these small acts in the fight for survival. It lets us see the heaviness of the dormitory and corridor walls, hear the doors squeaking, hear the perpetual shouts of the attendants, perceive the inner void of solitary beings surrounded by walls of men.
300 patients are packed, sometimes 12 to a room, in to the Romanian psychiatric institution of Gura Ocnitei. The daily routine is reduced to medication, sleep and food, without any kind of therapy or reintegration programme. The internees of all backgrounds (from mentally or physically disabled to social cases) are left to themselves with no hope of ever leaving this place, no perspective or future.
Thus, the inhabitants have created their own closed community. Inside this very peculiar society, people become friends, get married and split up again. They trade with coffee and cigarettes which have come to replace official currency. And above all, music brings some colour in this dullness, and allows them to dream of another world.
The film, shot in still and precise long takes, reflects the immobility of daily life in the institution and offers at the same time an impressive witness to man’s urge to survive.
The people in Izbuc, a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains, think thast their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf. According to an old custom, when a child is born, the midwifes call upon the spirits, to make the child hard working, beautiful, loveable or wise. It is said that when Gratian was born, the umbilical cord broke only after the midwife called forth the werewolf. This crucial moment was to influence his whole life. His family and the whole village rejected him. At 73, Gratian lives in a shack outside the village, without water of heating.
Every Saturday Gratian goes into the village to beg for the food he needs for the following week. The saying goes that those who refused to give him something will have their sheep eaten by wolves after a few days. In his solitude, Gratian works with astronomical numbers. He says that his thoughts about belief, moral values, and eternal life will help him discover infinity. He sees himself as a traveler into the universe, who at a certain time will surpass the worldly existence and the essence of his soul will become equal to God.
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Film "amestec de eseu si cinema verite", facut intr-un camin de psihiatrie din Romania ("Centrul de Recuperare, Reabilitare si Reintegrare Profesionala pentru Bolnavi Neuro-Psihici Adulti Gura Ocnitei"
, la Gura Ocnitei. Filmul prezinta "fragmente de viata" din aceasta institutie, in care pacientii formeaza "o micro-societate inchisa". Cei 300 de oameni, unii dintre ei locuind cate 12 in camera, leaga prietenii, se casatoresc, se cearta, se despart. Cafeaua si tigarile sunt valuta forte. Mancatul, dormitul si impartirea medicamentelor sunt activitatile care dau ritm unei vieti monotone. Filmul este "o marturisire impresionanta a instinctului de supravietuire al omului".
"Pe mine ma interesau tacticile de supravietuire ale oamenilor aflati practic in detentie pe viata. In momentul de fata, oamenii nu parasesc o astfel de institutie decat pe drumul spre cimitir. Cu ce gand te trezesti de dimineata, cand zilele se aseamana atat de tare, incat timpul pare sa stea pe loc. Spatiul privat si notiunea de individ par sa se fi sters, si totusi oamenii gasesc o ratiune pentru a lupta mai departe. Am cautat sa arat normalitatea locuitorilor caminului in contrast cu anomalia sistemului. Titlul este un citat dintr-un cantec compus de Popescu- matematicianul, un locuitor al spitalului. Lumea vazuta ca o orchestra, in care Dumnezeu si Dracu fac parte din aceeasi trupa si se joaca cu soarta oamenilor. Aparatul adopta pozitia unui locuitor al azilului si povesteste din interior monotonia cotidiana, societatea paralela care s-a format, cu prieteni si sefi, dragoste si ura, o lume identica cu cea din afara" (Alexandra Gulea).(cinemagia)