Maria

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

Director: Călin Peter Netzer

Cast: Diana Dumbravă, Horațiu Mălăele, Şerban Ionescu, Luminița Gheorghiu, Rona Hartner, Florin Călinescu, Florin Zamfirescu, Ana Ularu

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.