Lazarescu

Mr. Lazarescu is a sixtysomething retired engineer who lives alone with three mangy cats in a cramped Bucharest apartment.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2006

Directors like Cristi Pulu ("The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"), Corneliu Porumboiu ("12:08 East of Bucharest") and Cristian Mungiu ("4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days") looked back to their nation's not-so-distant past to create powerful, often absurdist anatomies of the terminal phase of the Ceauşescu regime.

Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies Steve Dollar 2011

I wanted to see Lazarescu when it opened, but it never left the most distant Manhattan theatres and I never got around to it.

Archive 2010-01-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010

I wanted to see Lazarescu when it opened, but it never left the most distant Manhattan theatres and I never got around to it.

Movies in brief The Brillig Blogger 2010

Two years ago Cristi Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" took on the nation's ineffectual heath-care system: the elderly Lazarescu calls an ambulance when he falls sick, only to find himself shunted from hospital to hospital.

When Movies Follow The Storm 2007

Sad to say I've only seen one of your ten, but am waiting on L'enfant, Three Times, and Lazarescu from Netflix- hope others such as Inland Empire make it to DVD soon.

2006: The Year in Film 2007

Particularly impressive is the acting: The cast nails the panoply of officious, uncaring or downright rude behaviors that Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) encounters from imperious physicians, indifferent nurses and insulting pencil-pushers over his long, dark night.

Berks county news 2009

The final, protracted scene where his dead body is washed and dressed is almost unbearably moving, all the more so in the light of the fact that the actor portraying Lazarescu, Ion Fiscuteanu himself passed away two years after the film.

The Pleasures of Underachievement 2009

The state of the Romanian health service is abysmal and Lazarescu is successively misdiagnosed, rediagnosed and at one point turned away by a megalomaniacal doctor intent on punishing him for his drinking.

The Pleasures of Underachievement 2009

Over the course of the night, Mioara will labor to convince any of the doctors examining him that Lazarescu needs something more than a lecture, a good night's sleep and some time away from the booze.

GreenCine Daily 2009