Quirky, sometimes moving comedy-drama focuses upon two estranged adult siblings who travel to Poland (although filmed in Romania) to trace a beloved pet which once belonged to their now elderly and ailing grandmother.
Fogler and Nyback make a likeable pair who manage to put aside trivial sibling rivalry long enough to reconcile their relationship, and restore a long-buried memory from their family's past. There's an ensemble of eccentric characters with whom they come into contact, ranging from the surly, mute chauffeur (Doroftei) to a pair of local mafia-esque crooks, and an overly-stimulated vamp (Murarus) eager to get her hooks into a western society male.
Might be ten minutes overlong, the somewhat convoluted plot does occasionally drag with the weight of so many quirky characters and their sometimes sordid backstories to tell, but technically it's well made and the acting is fluid despite some extremely frigid looking conditions in which the action takes place. Original and worth watching.
Fogler and Nyback make a likeable pair who manage to put aside trivial sibling rivalry long enough to reconcile their relationship, and restore a long-buried memory from their family's past. There's an ensemble of eccentric characters with whom they come into contact, ranging from the surly, mute chauffeur (Doroftei) to a pair of local mafia-esque crooks, and an overly-stimulated vamp (Murarus) eager to get her hooks into a western society male.
Might be ten minutes overlong, the somewhat convoluted plot does occasionally drag with the weight of so many quirky characters and their sometimes sordid backstories to tell, but technically it's well made and the acting is fluid despite some extremely frigid looking conditions in which the action takes place. Original and worth watching.
