The lessons learned in this pitch-black German-Bulgarian co-production are very grim indeed, a social-realist drama that takes an unexpectedly shocking turn at its harrowing climax. The film’s rece…
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What happens next is tightly choreographed, mini-masterclass in tension that takes place in the confines of Blaga’s drab, brutalist apartment. The phone rings and a man who calls himself Inspector Kolev quickly milks the old woman of her details, warning her that she has been targeted by a gang of violent thieves.
Except there is no back-up, and Blaga has fallen prey to a sophisticated scam that, on reflection, seems ludicrous, especially for a retired schoolteacher. Blaga feels the public humiliation and the recriminations acutely , especially when she tries to raise the money she still needs for her husband’s grave. The bank won’t help, her estranged son is living in the States, and, in her early 70s, she is too old for the job market.
There’s plenty of potential for comedy in this kind of scenario — mined last year in the sometimes darkly droll— but there is not the merest whiff of it here. Like the high points of the recent Romanian New Wave, Komandarev uses genre to examine humanity: his roving camera studies Blaga as an anthropologist might, showing the little character traits that will pay off in the most extreme way imaginable.
The title itself is a play on words — Blaga is coaching a Syrian refugee in her bid to become a Bulgarian citizen — but there are also lessons to be learned by the teacher, not all of them constructive. But Komandarev doesn’t judge, and this distance makes the denouement all the more intense. “I’ve lived by the rules my whole life,” she says, echoing the thoughts of many women her age, and when she starts to break them, you could be forgiven for thinking the result will be somewhat cathartic.
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