SummaryOvidiu, a young man who runs his own business selling snacks and soft drinks out of his parents' apartment, wants to expand and buy a kiosk, but he doesn't have the "dough." A local mafioso offers him an impressive amount of money for an apparently simple job: he has to take a bag to Bucharest to a specific address. It seems, however, that the ba... Read More
Directed By:Cristi Puiu
Written By:Cristi Puiu, Razvan Radulescu
Stuff and Dough
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Low-budget triumph.
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It's a terrific little movie, gritty, real, ironic, ruthless and deeply humane.
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The brilliance of Stuff and Dough is that it wraps this powerful, disturbing drama in an anecdote from ordinary life. As is often the case in recent Romanian movies, the acting is so accomplished as to be invisible.
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Dryly funny, deceptively simple road movie that quietly reveals the state of contemporary Romanian life.
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Puiu seems content to embrace the dynamism of youth and possibility; if "Lazarescu" was a movie of dead ends, Stuff and Dough is one, quite literally, of open roads.
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There's no question of the mood Puiu means to capture, the sullen anomie of a rootless generation, but too often, he's just spinning his wheels.
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