Legaturi bolnavicioase (2006)

Director:

Tudor Giurgiu

Writers:

Razvan Radulescu (dialogue)
Cecilia Stefanescu (script & dialogue)

Release Date:

17 March 2006 (Romania)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories. |

Plot Keywords:

Nudity | Lesbian Interest | Voice Over Narration | Brother Sister Relationship | Student

Cast

Maria Popistasu	...	Kiki
Ioana Barbu	...	Alex
Tudor Chirila	...	Sandu
Catalina Murgea	...	Mrs. Benes
Mircea Diaconu	...	Mr. Dragnea
Virginia Mirea	...	Mrs. Dragnea
Tora Vasilescu	...	Mrs. Parvulescu
Valentin Popescu	...	Mr. Parvulescu
Mihai Dinvale	...	Prof. Mihailescu
Carmen Tanase
Puya	...	Taxi driver
Mihaela Radulescu	...	Mrs. Negulescu
Robert Paschall Jr.	...	Bo

Also Known As:

Love Sick (International: English title)

Runtime:

Romania:86 min | Argentina:86 min

Country:

Romania | France

Language:

Romanian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Libra Film

I want to stop...and if you love me, you will do as I ask you

It's a strange, yet somehow impressive story, about love. Personnaly, I never run over such a twist-off story in real life. But, I can image there is.

It's a story that promises to be "sick" from the title. But, after I watch it, I didn't get this feeling of "sickness" which I would surely have regarding society rules. It's something beautiful in this movie... something impressive...which I cannot contradict using any moral or society rules.

The movie focuses mostly on relation between Kiki and Alex. You can see how this relation starts, evolves and finally ends. You feel the moment when this love blossoms, the first whispers, touchings. You feel the connection. And no moment I though this is immoral. You even hope it will not break in the end....it cannot break...it's not right. You feel the pain of being hart broken in the end...

But,I need also to add a negative spin to this comment...I don't know if the story is not somehow *showed* to give the feeling that these relations are sick only in form, but not in content. You don't have the total story, but only fragments. When movie has started, the relation between Kiki and Sandu was already in place. So, no clue about the nature of the relation. You feel only a tension between them...a fight between the need for love and desire to break this relation. I think this line of Kiki to Sandu says all: "I want to stop...and if you love me, you will do as I ask you".

This movie will probably stir some questions about what is love and what is to be moral...and where's the limit between them. I don't know if the idea of this movie is "love conquers all...even social and moral standards" or "love is beautiful...no matter how or where". But in my opinion, this movie is already a success for the simple reason that it makes you think...