If there is one thing I regret about this movie is that there weren’t many Swedes in the audience when it was shown in Biograf Sture last evening. Maybe the discussions in the beginning were a bit too long but they made some sense to me, part of them at least but the moment the movie starts, reality hits you. It is, in a way, something like seeing your life on screen just as you witnessed it watching, maybe not your family, but neighbors, not by living the story yourself but by hearing it so many times from people standing right in front of you. Maybe some things are exaggerated in the movie, though I must say that they didn’t do this to a great extent. I think that for some people they didn’t do this at all. I am not going to expose the plot over here, instead I am going to recommend this movie to anyone who is interested in watching it.  The story itself, though sprinkled with some humor every now and then, is as sad as it is real but it is the details that hit me the most when I watched it.

It is also strange to see The Magician and Arlechino playing in something else rather than children shows, or to put it correctly, two actors that brightened my childhood are performing serious parts.

Also, because apparently I can’t do anything without running into it, and how I love this, you have no idea, and I wish it happens as often as possible, everyday even,  at a certain moment in the movie in a news bulletin from the radio you can clearly hear the lady presenting the news saying: “The tennis player Horia Tecau is the last Romanian standing in the run for Wimbledon”. That made me happy.

Watch the trailer below and give it a shot.