have we be so stifle by hollywood formula and actor studio mannerism that we need throw gold star and superlative at anything that do not retread plot device or boast a familiar narrative contrivance . be that the measure of good cinema . anything that isn not a bloated american production . 12 represent08 east of bucharest win the camera dor in cannes for what must the most self indulgent and esoteric and longwinded one note joke ever put on art film . we have needlessly long shot and completely disjoint from the movie rhyme scheme and which do nothing but draw attention to the fact that youre watch a film that desperately crave acknowledgement for it bureaucratic pace and artistic subtlety . but nothing congeals and the film 2 3 minute inert shot and circular banter be reduce to mere gimmick instead of underscoring ( almost non existent ) theme of a stagnated post communist economy and wishful democratic nostalgia . this have all the hallmark of a disastrous inside joke while though the character be suppose to be quirky and lovable oaf theyre never actually write to be anything other than 2 dimensional pastiche each equip with one tragic flaw and completely irrelevant emotional baggage . in spite of a few truly charm scene during a live broadcast go awry and this be trite and uneventful ( in every way ) and surprisingly pretentious art house filler .