a real, real special film. among the Romanian movies from the last decade. because it propose the poetry of the small things. because it is honest portrait of marriage and teenager life and desire of small, comfortable happiness. because it has the perfect script, director and actors. because it is a happy exception from the long chain of dark- bitter dramas about post - communist Romanian society. its humor, its naivety, the rebellious teenager, the discover of chat and the emotions of late love for the man/wife, the scenes opposing the parents like children and the dreams of theirs boy, the delicacy to tell a story who becomes a pastel portrait or an early spring morning are virtues of a profound beautiful film. and, sure the definition of a form of not ordinary romanticism.

I simply don't understand how this movie can have this rating. All the actors act amazingly BAD. We have very talented actors in Romania but the person in charge of casting went out of his/hers way to find the worst actors possible for this flick.In the first 5 minutes, as in all bad Romanian movies, we have our first nudity/sex scene. The movie contains senseless and gratuitous sex scenes through it's whole length.In the first scenes of the movie the director shows us the characters only from the knees to the shoulders. It looks like a kid that just finished college is trying new directorial techniques that he just learned but fails miserably.The movie wants to be a romantic comedy but there's nothing romantic nor comic in the whole movie.There's no fluidity in the movie. The actors look like they are rehearsing for the main event. The dialog between characters doesn't flow - there are pauses between lines like they're reading from a prompter.The actions of the characters have no sense. The main character is ugly - but all the ladies want him. His wife is a normal looking dry-cleaner - but a fancy Porsche owner and good looking guy that gets his clothes cleaned by her, fancies her.The 2 main characters rediscover themselves online, but when they find out they were speaking to each-other they get a divorce.This is my first review - I simply hate when bad movies get good rep because the crew that made the movie came and ranked it high.

So i decided one day to go and see "Hello! How are you?". As i entered the cinema i started mentally preparing myself for an artsy flick with satiric humor based on morbid irony that in the end would leave me with a slightly bad taste in my mouth but because of which i could brag that i had seen a deep and meaningful motion picture.No more than five minutes into it i was surprised to see the rear end of a beautiful young woman performing oral sex on an adolescent male. I don't mean to be shallow, it's just that the movie states right from the beginning that it will most definitely not bore you. Don't get me wrong, this is not your average toilet humor, foul language and drug abuse infested teen comedy. If I were to describe the plot and feel of the movie by comparison with other motion pictures, the exposition describes a family much like the one in "American Beauty" while the teenage lead develops in a matter familiar with "Liceenii", with a lot more intercourse. However, the solutions to the problems that the characters encounter are very different, as their personality.The first thing that I noticed that was significantly different from what i was used to as far as Romanian movies go was the incredible camera work (and probably post-production). The cinematography in "Hello! How are you?" is exceptional by any standard. No movie of any genre or type comes to mind with better camera work. Every scene is adequately lit, with no obvious additional spot lights or flood lights, keeping everything as natural as possible. Characters and items are very well centered, and frequent use of depth of field and focus techniques to keep the audience alert even when the camera is still. The attention to detail is astonishing, the film being riddled with very minutely crafted closeups (makeup artists also deserve credit here). A lot of scenes are reminiscent of very modern and youthful video advertisements with the characters being followed by the camera as they walk around the capital with little else happening while lines of chat fill in the storyline. Unfortunately, the choice of font for the aforementioned text is lacking, consisting of "Times New Roman" which i find down right appalling. A Humanist typeface similar to Segoe WP would have blended in far better. However, i was pleased with there rest of the typography choices.A lot painstaking work has obviously gone into the soundtrack, from opera voices singing the lines of the characters to piano music synchronized to keyboard presses, yet another aspect of the film that raises the bar.The acting is at the very least good. I find the para-verbal, nonverbal communication as well as body language in this movie to be very challenging for the actors but they did not disappoint. Some lines are exaggerated to emphasize the comical effect while others are numbed for the same reason. I've never found Romanian humor this appealing before. Situational humor is abundant. I will admit, "Hello! How are you?" might be more properly savored by Romanians, simply because the whole context feels familiar. However, it is in no way unaccessible for the rest of the audience, on the contrary, it offers a delightful depiction of a modern Romanian family.As far as the plot goes, character evolution, development and motivation is adequate, enticing and unexpected in some aspects. I was puzzled somewhat by the sudden change of personality in the lead teenage character, which went from Casanova to physics geek overnight. In my opinion the vanity, arrogance and confidence that comes with exercising your masculinity with such a frequency at that age should develop the character very differently and frequent outbursts of melancholy and even self pity and disappointment mixed with anxiety are not compatible with such testosterone levels, albeit we are talking about a hormone governed teenager. The script comforts the audience up to a certain point with predictable turns of events, however, the suspense builds up progressively and the climax comes when least expected, following a different narrative approach than what the viewers were used to up to that point.The denouement is somewhat open ended and remarkably optimistic despite the brake-up that the family undergoes. Finishing his right of passage the young male character defines himself, thus establishing his identity as an adult.

"Buna! Ce faci?" is an honest and jolly film, slightly tendered with melancholy. It treats the theme of love reflected in the life of a long- married couple that has a rebellious teenager son.I also salute the poster of the film, with its vintage-design and its capacity to slightly introduce the viewer to a world of love, indifference and self- finding, regardless the age, ideas that reflect themselves in a well-handled and well written script. Thumbs up to the casting and settings, as well. All in all, I recommend this film and I wish we (the Romanians) produce more and more such romantic comedies.