The brilliance of Stuff and Dough is that it wraps this powerful, disturbing drama in an anecdote from ordinary life. As is often the case in recent Romanian movies, the acting is so accomplished as to be invisible.
It's a terrific little movie, gritty, real, ironic, ruthless and deeply humane.
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Dryly funny, deceptively simple road movie that quietly reveals the state of contemporary Romanian life.
70
Village Voice
Village Voice
Puiu seems content to embrace the dynamism of youth and possibility; if "Lazarescu" was a movie of dead ends, Stuff and Dough is one, quite literally, of open roads.