7/10
Simple, but beautiful.
23 March 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The reason I decided to watch this movie is that it was filmed in my home city, Bucharest. I was thrilled to discover what image would be attached to it in the movie. As some say, they gave Bucharest quite the romantic look. This city is totally European style and unique at some points.

In the opening scene, I had to play it backward and forward a few times, because I couldn't believe the actor playing Young Vivian's Father was Mihai Calin. In Romania, he is a quite respectful actor. I've seen him in a play at the National Theatre.

The scenes with the city that were shown while Vivian was jogging were amazingly beautiful. They showed some places where I love to hang out. They chose some really cool and really old buildings for the places Vivian and Aiden lived in, though dirty and miserable the apartments, I guess that was the criteria they needed, or wanted.

In 31:15, there's a scene when Aidan comes down the stairs and says "Bunah!" to the receptionist. That means "Hello!" in Romanian.

The last shot shown with the Arc De Triomphe totally rocked! I wished I knew about it at the time the movie was being shot, I would have auditioned for some small role or something. Any movie with Hugh Dancy shot in my city sounds perfect to me.
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