The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, for all its terrible matter-of-factness, produces tumultuous feelings of amazement and revolt.
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04/24/06
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:68
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Shot in naturalistic style, this is a powerful indictment of absurdity and indifference in the face of human suffering.
Theatrical Release:14-07-2006
Synopsis: Shot in Romania, THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU follows the title character as he waits for attention in a rundown hospital emergency ward. Fans of Lars Von Trier's THE KINGDOM should find much to love... [More]
Reviews for The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
A heartbreakingly powerful masterpiece that affected me far more deeply than any other film I've seen all year.
04/21/06
An antidote to 'E.R' but too much like a docudrama played out as though in real time.
04/17/06
Two and a half hours of shaky handheld lensing about a man slowly expiring in a succession of hospitals becomes unexpectedly mesmerizing.
02/18/06
Top CriticA descent into the hell of Bucharest emergency rooms
01/12/06
[A] magnificently damning critique on healthcare... done with a devil's sense of humor that then calls you out on your laughter.
10/08/05
Not the easiest film of the year, but certainly among the best.
10/01/05
A real-surreal odyssey through medical metropolis-as-inferno.
09/27/05
When the film's title is finally, quietly realized, it affords the viewer a hard-won, if mournful liberation.
09/27/05
Possesses a raw, focused outrage that’s difficult to shake.
09/26/05
Distilled to a more endurable length, this insightful odyssey might best serve as a required text for graduating medical students and hospital administrators.
09/26/05
Top CriticThis brutally honest Romanian satire becomes more humanistic by exploring its absence, depicting a world of arrogance, complacency and indifference to human suffering
09/25/05
A sad and scary film about the ignominy of dying alone in a hospital room surrounded by strangers and without dignity.
09/22/05
A brilliant work of cinematic art.
09/20/05
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu comes on like a force of nature; radiating a startling intensity, it demands to be reckoned with.
09/19/05
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