it could be another successful film of a special Romanian director. or the return of Romanian cinema to the historical genre. or occasion to see great actors in impeccable performances. or, just, a different film. but its virtue is the status of beautiful homage. to film. to sacrifice of few idealist people. to a slice of Romania modernity. to figures who looking for change everything. it is a basket with stories. love, humor, dramas. and the beginning of Romanian cinema. the same flavor of films and making of and clashes between different visions. for me, "Restul e tăcere" has two fundamental virtues : the original portrait of the king Carol I, the splendid presence of Ioana Bulcă. and , sure, the impeccable atmosphere.

Story of a movie. Story of a Romanian society and the image of movie-adventure. A film about small things, warm, nostalgic, like a spring day.A comedy but, in same time, description of a fight. Old fashion atmosphere and subjective view. And large circles of collective memory. A film about present with words of past.Simple, naive and natural, classic and childish, cruel analysis of a victory and scene of soft discover of national modernity's roots. Ioana Bulca in a impressive come-back. Marius Florea Vizante as brilliant pioneer. And the ash of a lost time. A film about the deep images of soul. Piece of self-definition. A sort of game out of gray reality. A movie. About sense of art, fight, success, fame and truth. Small fragment of a huge mirror.

After 5 years of patience we have another film made by Nae Caranfil. In my opinion by far the best film director Romania has in this moment. If Filantropica represented a renascence for the Romanian Cinema now we know it was not an exception. I don't know if it is his strategy or simply the guys from the commission simply didn't want to finance him all these years, lets not forget that this films scenario was written like 20 years ago and only in 2007 it became reality. I have to admit that we are sick of seeing films about the "Golden Era" or directly made in the communist times. I don't mean 4,3 and 2 at all, that's a great film made by a great director but I want to see more films made about the great times of our country if not the inter-war period this story is placed perfectly before the First War or the Great War as they called it during and after it. And I don't mean maybe all of us all, I mean us, the young…the ones that heard all those criminal stories from our parents, of course its OK to see it on screen but where are those glory days of our Romanian Kingdom? Just seeing images that bring back to those times makes you feel different then seeing a secret service agent following you at night coming from a party a bit drunk and makes you see something else then the gray boxes and the House of People. The young Romanians need to take those times as an example. Of course it's a comedy after all, but all we know is how Romanians were driving all Dacia 1310 ( proudly ) hailing the "leader" and now after 1989 showing stories about the life then from another point of view, an objective one. Back to the film, the scene with the King is a very nice one, if all communist showed was the Morometii when the peasants were laughing at the royals ( romance by Marin Preda clearly influenced by the communists ) now we can actually see people calling him "Sir", I was really surprised by that scene ( probably at the Cotroceni Palace ) maybe just because of rarity of such scenes with important leaders of our past. Even though its still a comedy it tries to represent a very important part of our history. The war for Independence against the Otoman Empire strongly supported by a leader ( Carol I ) witch wasn't even Romanian, he was part of the Royal European family but dedicated his life to this country like nobody else of Romanian blood did in the last century. The young director who wants to do something new rather then theater is fighting his father who was a well know theater director who didn't accept his son to do "dirty business". It also has a very important word to say with our relation with Western Europe, we wanted to be in the same step with them, we didn't want to completely ignore what happens in Paris and the thing the young gun ( only 19 ) starts something like this shows the new generation is responsible even now, after 1989, to bring this country back to its glory days.

The latest hits of Romanian cinematography are all movies which show Romania in gray tones. So far they've been successful and i really appreciate those movies but it's about time that a director does the normal thing, to change the pace of Romanian films a little. Through the magic of Nae Caramfil and the help of a consistent budget, we have a film good enough to compare with Hollywood productions and who still keeps his artistic integrity and doesn't fall into commercialism. The script is brilliant and fearless, with cleaver lines and a language to suit the depicted times. Marius Vizante has a great performance as a frustrated but proud young director, and Ovidiu Niculescu's unlikely (Niculescu having neither the age, neither the stature of Leon Negrescu) cast in the role of Leon proved to be a really good choice. I sincerely believe that this movie will be a milestone in Romanian cinematography and i hope that many as good as this one will follow.