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12:08 East of Bucharest
Directed by
Corneliu Porumboiu
Not Rated
2006
89m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.3
96%
74%
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A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.
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Cast of 12:08 East of Bucharest
Mircea Andreescu
Emanoil Piscoci
Teodor Corban
Virgil Jderescu
Ion Sapdaru
Tiberiu Mănescu
Mirela Cioabă
Doamna Mănescu
Luminița Gheorghiu
Doamna Jderescu
Cristina Ciofu
Vali
Lucian Iftime
Lica
Anne Marie Chertic
Vera
Petrică Sapdaru
Petrica
Cătălin Paraschiv
Barman
George Guoqingyun
Chen
Constantin Diţă
Tibi
Daniel Badale
Professor
Marius Rogojinski
Vecin
Aurelia Tocu
Maricica Dima (voice)
12:08 East of Bucharest Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz
12:08 East of Bucharest cleverly takes on the aftermath of the December 1989 revolution in Romania that resulted in the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaucescu. It's a movie that seems simple, yet its subtle and brilliant complexity is not to be denied.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
12:08 East of Bucharest is easier to admire than enjoy, funnier to describe than actually watch.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Live television going down in flames is always good for a laugh.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's a dark little ride, but at the end the lights hesitantly flicker back on.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
[It] builds a sly and unexpected human comedy out of a dispute over whether a revolution would still be a revolution if nobody showed up.
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
While 12:08 East of Bucharest could take more than one viewing to truly appreciate, it's worth the commitment.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Dry comedies from eastern Europe tend to cast a skeptical eye on anything and everything, which is certainly the case with Corneliu Porumboiu's debut feature.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
First-time director Corneliu Porumboiu's political satire is uproariously funny and bitingly critical of social hypocrisy before and after Ceausescu, and of the new forms of mythmaking and corruption that have replaced Soviet-style autocracy.
Washington Post
Philip Kennicott
It's easy to end a film with the idea that life goes on. It's extremely difficult to make the cliche the only possible, necessary and satisfying ending. Porumboiu's film does that.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Corneliu Porumboiu's picture would submerge you in alcoholic despair if it weren't so damn funny. (That seems to be the Romanian mode of expression.)
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
A deadpan comedy that evolves into a wry, politicized examination of truth.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A casually bleak and neatly structured ensemble comedy -- at once deadpan and bemused.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
12:08 East of Bucharest is a shrewdly built comedy, but the characters are broad-verging-on-cheap unholy hick fools.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Though it is modest, almost anecdotal, in scale, 12:08 East of Bucharest is also characterized by a precise and sneaky formal wit.
Variety
Deborah Young
The buoyant little comedy 12:08 East of Bucharest puts its finger on the problem in the best tradition of East European humor, savvy but concrete, gentle but sharp as a knife.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The most hilarious movie I've seen this year.
Newsday
John Anderson
A bleakly hilarious movie.
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
...12:08 East Of Bucharest doesn't pretend to have a position on the fallout of the Romanian Revolution. Instead it contends that different questions need to be asked and considered about post-Communist life...
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Porumboiu keeps his perspective: calm but not impassive, skeptical but not cynical, he reinforces an air of normalcy and an essential fearlessness that characterize life since the fall of the tyrant.
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