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"De ce eu?"

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Bazat pe fapte reale, De ce eu? spune povestea lui Cristian (Emilian Oprea), un tanăr procuror idealist care încearcă să rezolve un complicat caz de corupție în tumultuosul context social-politic din România anilor 2000. Cristian investighează cazul unui coleg procuror suspectat de luare de mită, fals şi uz de fals, sustragere de documente. Ancheta are însă implicaţii la nivel extrem de înalt și îi spulberă tânărului magistrat încrederea în justiţie. Încercînd să descopere adevărul, Cristian intră într-o zonă periculoasă și se expune unor revelații dureroase și neașteptate. ... Romanian director Tudor Giurgiu returns to the Berlinale with a bitter legal thriller based on a real-life case of political corruption Kafka comes to post-Communist Romania in writer-director  Tudor  Giurgiu 's third fiction feature, which premiers in Berlin's Panorama Special section this week.  Why Me?  is a thinly disguised dramatization of the life of Romanian state criminal prosecutor  C

"Fifty Shades of Grey"

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Not exactly whip-smart, but this hotly anticipated bondage-porn romance is in many ways a significant improvement on E.L. James' novel. If the problem with too many literary adaptations is a failure to capture the author’s voice, then that shortcoming turns out to be the single greatest virtue of “ Fifty Shades of Grey ,” the hotly anticipated first film inspired by  E.L. James ’ bestselling assault on sexual mores, good taste and the English language. In telling the story of a shy young virgin and the broodingly handsome billionaire who invites her into his wonderful world of hanky-spanky, director  Sam Taylor-Johnson  and screenwriter Kelly Marcel have brought out a welcome element of cheeky, knowing humor that gradually recedes as the action plunges into darker, kinkier territory. Glossy, well cast, and a consistent hoot until it becomes a serious drag, this neo-“9½ Weeks” is above all a slick exercise in carefully brand-managed titillation — edgier than most grown-up studio

"Rosewater"

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 Ear ly in “Rosewater,” Jon Stewart’s first film as a feature director, an Iranian-born journalist, Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal), has a brief meeting in a Tehran café with a comedian (Jason Jones, from “The Daily Show”), who “interviews” him for an American TV program. It is 2009, at the time of the Presidential race between the ultra-conservative incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the liberal reformer Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The comedian, grinning, pretends to be a spy and asks Bahari why Iran is such a terrifying place; Bahari, who is based in London and is a contributor to the BBC and   Newsweek , laughs and doesn’t answer. The Iranian secret police, however, operate with an undernourished capacity for comedy; they see the interview and put Bahari in prison, where he remains for a hundred and eighteen days, largely isolated except for excruciating sessions with a “specialist.” In the movie, no mention is made of “The Daily Show,” but the episode is a reference to a