by José Sarmiento Hinojosa

In one of the latest scenes of the film we travel an empty highway towards civilization. It’s a beautiful scene, since it breaks out the lonely state of its lead character, but also the overall feeling of a country full of expectations, a Romania that, being integrated to the European Union, dreamed of progress and welfare, but whose dreams lay lifeless in the thick mud of ungovernability and corruption. Porumboiu has found a perfect excuse, as always, to talk about the state of a country in limbo, in this infinite football game that is life.