First time when i heard about this movie i thought it's gotta be another sad romanian movie with a low budget, but i was wrong! After i saw it, all i can say it's that this movie is one of the greatest romanian movie made in last 20 maybe 30 years. It has great humor, the acting it's very well done and the story-board it's amazing. I didn't knew that romanians are the first who made a long movie.Anyway, from all the movies that i saw this year "Restul e tacere" it's in top 5 of my favorite movies. After i saw it, i decide to buy it! If you want to see it, don't pirate it, buy it!

Or, of course, half empty. I had been waiting for a while for this movie. Really liked Nae Caranfil's other films - especially his last one, Filantropica, a dark and cynical comedy that manages to be both original, funny and thought-provoking. Now, this one is different. Not that it's bad - but it's "serious". It's about the first (or one of the first) movies ever made in Romania, about the war of independence with the Turks. The action is set in 1911, and the events depicted in the "film in the film" had happened some 35 years earlier.The film does avoid the most basic traps - like being overly patriotic. But in my opinion it does not avoid the "folklore" reconstitution of the early 20th century Bucharest. It has all the expected clichés all Romanians know about - like Bucharest supposedly being then a "little Paris". It has some standard characters - "the young idealist", "the hot actress", "the patron of the arts", ... none of which are very believable. It has some pretty heavy metaphors - the "hot actress" gets sprinkled with water twice in the movie, only to die in a fire towards the end ... come on...It also has its good moments. I liked the old generals quarreling about who arrived first on the battle scene, and loved the scene with the King to whom in is explained that the film's director is a kind of an accountant! Another one I liked was the projection of the Independence movie - a bunch of elderly gentlemen in fancy suits getting all excited watching the battle scenes, almost like at a soccer game!I could have ended right there. Unfortunately, it did not - it goes on for another half hour, probably to provide information about the fate of the "film in the film" and of those who made it. And the very last scene nails it to the ground - an actor saying "the rest is silence". Could have included himself in that...So, overall, a disappointment, maybe because I was expecting too much.

Love films. Always have, always will. Would like to love Romanian films too, because it just feels good to hear a film unfold in my very own language. But things are as they are and I can't make them any different. All I can try is change my "optic" of things, which I can't seem to do in this particular case. Some films sway you to, others don't. It's just as simple as that.In Caranfil's style, "Restul e tacere" is a jolly new film about film, but also about jolly old Romania and the people inhabiting it. It looks good and is decently acted, as a young protagonist tries to make a film about the Romanian battle of independence, against the Turks, which leads him on a road of enlightenment about the people of that world. A lot of character types pop up in this morally vile Romania which bear a lot of criticism to the contemporary one as well.What disappoints me is that subtlety is often sacrificed for clarity, with an ending so full of itself that it just undermines many of the things said and done along the way. It is undeniable that the film has moments of poignant humor and all in all manages to sketch a very true form of the ill society which rules the land, now and then, but it isn't "round" enough to be placed on the shelf it wishes to place itself.I may be overly harsh about Caranfil's latest effort, but I do not wish to ignore the underlying themes and motifs he ties in with the story, the allegorical parallels of other stages of the world and some of the great single elements which are part of it. However it isn't enough - as far as I'm concerned - to be really smart about the things you say, if the way you say them doesn't fit.

È pericoloso sporgersi, Asphalt Tango, Filantropica... The ingredient are the same: lots of humor on a tragic background. 'Restul e tacere' has the same Caranfil style, and more... Without a doubt, his best work. It's a story about the making of the first Romanian movie in 1911, the age when Bucharest was still 'little Paris', and the national identity feelings were probably at the highest level of all times. Although as a Romanian i felt really close to this movie, i must say there is no over - nationalist propaganda, just a simple decent story with a little bit of history as background, telling us how talent met with business to do the "War of independence" film. The humor is great, the story is a must know, the acting is extraordinary, especially the two main characters (Leon Negrea played by Ovidiu Niculescu and Grigore Ursache played by Marius Florea Vizante), the music is right on cue, the 'little Paris' atmosphere is greatly recreated and the rest is silence...