Marti, dupa craciun 2010

A.O. Scott, New York Times: The strength of "Tuesday, After Christmas," Mr. Muntean's fourth feature, lies in its rigorous, artful and humane fidelity to quotidian circumstance. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Muntean has pulled off the near-impossible, turning each scene (captured in capacious long takes) into arias of generosity for his actors. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: More about well-observed moments of everyday life than it is about heightened melodrama. Read more

Natasha Senjanovic, Hollywood Reporter: The dissected minutiae of this adultery drama unfortunately doesn't add up to a very original or moving whole. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: There's neither glamour nor its absence, neither cinematic references nor a repudiation of them, just a soap-opera story, told with a conventionally arty craft that has neither resonance nor significance. Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: The latest bloom from the flourishing garden that is Romanian cinema, Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas chronicles the emotional fallout from a classic love triangle, but it unfolds with the agonizing tension of a suspense film. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Like an alternate-universe Woody Allen film, in which real people wrestle with what their hearts want despite the hurt it causes everyone, including themselves. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Marital infidelity is hardly a new cinematic topic. But this film is far from cliched, thanks to the literate script and a trio of sensitive performances... Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: "Tuesday, After Christmas" goes down pretty smooth, with a sneaky-powerful aftertaste. Read more

Jay Weissberg, Variety: Long takes with an often still camera call as little attention to Tudor Lucaciu's masterful lensing as possible, stripping down cinematic elements to their most basic and maintaining an observational stance without becoming fetishistic. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Muntean's fourth feature is unrelentingly mundane, as if made with the sole purpose of draining the topic of adultery of any prurient interest, the kisses accompanied by smacking sounds to smother any erotic response. Read more