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The Fall (2006)
The influences on this film
When you talk about cultural reference in this film, please have in mind that this is remake of a Bulgarian film from 1981 "Yo-ho-ho!" Look here - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278827/plotsummary , based on the screenplay of the Bulgarian writer Valeri Petrov. So any influence on the script must be traced before 1981, not after. For me, the 1981 film is a favourite classic, and I am waiting impatiently to see "The Fall". Given the movie making technologies from 1981 in Bulgaria (communist and behind the Iron Curtain then), the film could hardly be seen beyond the borders of the so called "socialist world". Also, there is an important story line of the boy growing without a father and looking for a father figure, which has been replaced in this film by the milder relationship little girl - older man, which I am really curious to compare.
Buntat na L. (2006)
I feel so sorry for the Bulgarian cinema
It is nearly 18 years after the fall of communism and still they cannot make a single good film. I feel so sorry for my fellow compatriots and for the Bulgarian cinema as a whole.
What can we see in the film - a hilarious plot, sucked from under the script-writer's nails. Utterly illogical and lacking any credibility whatsoever.
A medium-level directing - with very rare moments of decent cinema - the rest is just mediocre rubbish.
A cast above average - with Deo, Gyrbov, Dicho and ESPECIALLY Rachkov making credible characters (and lacking anything to help them in the script) Still, there is a hope - if we can put an 2,00 (on the scale from 2,00 to 6,00) on the previous attempts of post-totalitarian Bulgarian cinema - this one rises to 2,49 - a way to go, but there is noticeable movement above the dead-point. And just that - a movement. No more.