Anca Maco

Anca Maco

Favorite films

  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Natural Born Killers
  • Malena
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  • The New Year That Never Came

    ★★★★★

  • Men of Deeds

    ★★★★½

  • Top Gun: Maverick

    ★★½

  • Elvis

    ★★★★★

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  • The New Year That Never Came

    The New Year That Never Came

    ★★★★★

    With a new approach in the new Romanian cinema, intertwining stories and life threads into a 24 + hours timeframe, this debut feature brings out something monumental al ignored: the real fear.
    Watching so many characters living it, in their daily lives, uncovering their lifestyle, their hidden wishes as opposed to those of the repressive aparatus of the dictatorship, in a dark comedy tone, the past comes alive beyond the screen, with waves of emotion.
    A beautifully achieved retro vibe…

  • Men of Deeds

    Men of Deeds

    ★★★★½

    What many good arthouse films lack for being actually relatable to the audience at all levels, Men of Deeds has in full: honesty.
    It takes a lot of guts to talk differently and without judgement about a sense of loss in a „traditional” way of living in which expectations and usefulness come first, about cowardice, confusion, bad habits turned into the-law-of-the-land that seems to offer almost no way out of, about inner struggles, while following a thrilling story set in…