2007 · comedy · drama · war
California Dreamin'
Directed by Cristian Nemescu2h 35m2007
1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. Their arrival in this small village dramatically changes its landscape.
Our read: California Dreamin' (2007) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
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