an incredible piece of trash and with cheeky artsy pretension . the cardboard myth and the cinematic potemikiniade and the clay foot colossus that be lucian pintilie show again his hideous and incompetent face . he be once upon a time and several decade ago and a talented theater director and a promising movie maker but he never have the resource to substantiate his career . he simply have no grasp of what the cinematographic aesthetic mean . he believe that filmic art be synonymous with hysteria and brutality and vulgarity and and oh yes and exhibitionism . if he doesn not command the actor to take all their clothes off and parade their nakedness in front of himself and the camera and he doesn not feel he alive . this scabrous piece of film about the romanian miner be one of the most amateurish and trivial he ever make . it amaze and how certain semidoctes can achieve intellectual orgasm by watch this worthless insult to decent cinema .