I like Zornitsa for being a brave director doing her own independent projects the way she wants to, handling topics which for some might be "not cool" or even "cliche" but still relevant and touching for people with heart and soul. Few directors left like her in poor little state of Bulgaria, not surprisingly mostly women, living up to the expectations of some marginal "intellectuals" like myself, who at the very least have some fair judgement of the state Bulgarian cinema is at. I must stress that I am a man myself and highly disapprove of what male directors are producing in my home country (with a few exceptions of course), not a feminist at all, believe me... Usually movies produced here are either totally dumb and soulless or pretentious slick blockbuster :) kindoff wannabe hollywood copycats, lately the new trend create some mysterious sci-fi antiutopical artsy fartsy stuff... problem is they are not good enough to do it, even when they bring the best cameraman and try to present some technical gimmicks or whatever for effect. Naturally budgets are hard to get, but that doesnt change a thing...
Zornitsa comes from documentary i guess and it is obvious, so the best parts of this movie are partly documentary with real persons acting (GREATLY I would add), you can even see the main actress being at ease in exactly those truly sincere and authentic scenes. A bit of distance probably and lack of true chemistry between her and the croatian guy who played the older lover, anyway the beautiful camerawork and cinematic ideas balanced more or less this minor drawback, although sometimes this could have put the movie on a whole new level, but i guess in this case the goal was different, we dont expect Bergman here :)
It is a simple story about someone that is strong enough not to turn their heads away from a problem that confronts him/her, which most people do, especially when they can easily just return to their safe asylum (literally), very touching at places emotionally, i personally cried a bit and in the very end when the truth was revealed it became even more overwhelming. But thats just me, I like being emotional and am definitely not afraid of it.
Anyway, a bit messy and lazy - my review, just some thoughts
Definitely worth watching, I would say a rare event in Bulgaria's Cinematography.
Good Luck to Zornitsa and the crew for their new projects!
Zornitsa comes from documentary i guess and it is obvious, so the best parts of this movie are partly documentary with real persons acting (GREATLY I would add), you can even see the main actress being at ease in exactly those truly sincere and authentic scenes. A bit of distance probably and lack of true chemistry between her and the croatian guy who played the older lover, anyway the beautiful camerawork and cinematic ideas balanced more or less this minor drawback, although sometimes this could have put the movie on a whole new level, but i guess in this case the goal was different, we dont expect Bergman here :)
It is a simple story about someone that is strong enough not to turn their heads away from a problem that confronts him/her, which most people do, especially when they can easily just return to their safe asylum (literally), very touching at places emotionally, i personally cried a bit and in the very end when the truth was revealed it became even more overwhelming. But thats just me, I like being emotional and am definitely not afraid of it.
Anyway, a bit messy and lazy - my review, just some thoughts
Definitely worth watching, I would say a rare event in Bulgaria's Cinematography.
Good Luck to Zornitsa and the crew for their new projects!