Box

2015 [ROMANIAN]

Drama / Romance / Sport

3
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 262 262

Plot summary

Box is a story of two people who meet at a crossroad. Two different destinies, two different lives, face to face in a game of sweat, blood and tears. Rafael (19) is a young boxer who dreams to conquer the world; Cristina (33) is a single mother who lost her balance. Two lives; one running very close to the earth, the other trying to fly high up, too high.

Director

Florin Serban Photo
Florin Serban

Top cast

Fatma Mohamed Photo
Fatma Mohamed as Karaoke duet
Oltin Hurezeanu Photo
Oltin Hurezeanu as Eduard
Hilda Péter Photo
Hilda Péter as Cristina
Mihai Ripan Photo
Mihai Ripan as Car wash client
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881.74 MB
1280*536
Romanian 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 1
1.77 GB
1920*804
Romanian 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   ro  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Kirpianuscus

not bad

I know, the expectation was high about this film. Not great but profound honest , about a Romania so familiar to its people. A boy. A woman. A meet on street. Box. Theater. A grandpa and a family. And something who must be defined as fall. In essence, only brutal return from dream to womb of reality. A question - film. Decent performances, decent story and, maybe, the status of not another "Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier". But, nice job, interesting work.
Reviewed by euroGary 8 / 10

Low-key, Românian obsession

Cristina, an ethnic-Hungarian actress of average talent living in România, is followed every day when she leaves the theatre where she's rehearsing Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'. But it isn't some smelly, wild-eyed obsessive following her: luckily it's the charming, hunky young Rafael, a poverty-stricken boxer fifteen years Cristina's junior, who has fallen for her. At first Cristina tells him to get lost, but gradually becomes intrigued and agrees to go for coffee.The message is slightly dodgy: pester a woman long enough and eventually she'll give in. And I could have done with fewer or shorter scenes both of Cristina's rehearsals and of Rafael's training (but a few shots of him in the shower wouldn't have gone amiss!) In many respects the film is predictable (you will not be surprised by what Rafael's new boss asks him to do just prior to a fight). But the two leads (Hilda Peter and Rafael Florea) are engaging, the "will-they-won't-they?" aspect doesn't feel too forced and director Florin Şerban ends the film at just the right point. I'd watch it again.
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