Describing Bulgarian reality and "train life" with perfect insight. Black humor but that's what keeps us survive here. The slang of the old lady, locked in the train's toilette, is simply a masterpiece. What a wonderful way to spend New Year's Eve. Makes me think of Wild Weed with Meryl Streep and Jack Nickolson. What a comfort that tramps don't differ in their national origin. No national boundaries about the very rich, either. Though, "they differ from you and me", as Scott Fitzgerald says in "The Rich Boy". Blueberry Hill is however difficult to be understood by foreigners unless they are not acquainted with Bulgarian reality previously. Maybe, the short story "The Bilgarian poetess" by John Updike will help more to those who want to understand Bulgaria.
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very theatrical
Iliyana24 November 2008
Aleksander Morfov is a great theatre director and probably that's the reason why the film somehow doesn't fit on the big screen. It is indeed very theatrical, the scenes, the dialogues, the characters almost everything.
And the whole story quite frankly lacks any depth. It's actually more like a dirty joke filled with black humour and curses which in the end needs explanation because you have missed the point somewhere along the line. And yes, life in Bulgaria can be very surreal at times but isn't that modern life everywhere around the world? It's not some kind of Balkan trademark!
And the whole story quite frankly lacks any depth. It's actually more like a dirty joke filled with black humour and curses which in the end needs explanation because you have missed the point somewhere along the line. And yes, life in Bulgaria can be very surreal at times but isn't that modern life everywhere around the world? It's not some kind of Balkan trademark!
Unoriginal and untrue.
SparxDragon4 May 2004
I am from Bulgaria and I'd like to say that the film is not linked to the reality in here. Everything is exaggerated and I think the movie is made just to lower Bulgaria's image in front of the world. The script writer has nothing Bulgarian in him. Nevertheless, Krustio Lafazanov ruled!
Bulgaria's movie industry is going nowhere, I don't see a difference between that movie and a Bulgarian movie before 10 years. Nothing's changed.
There were good movies in the past that had sense in them, although the budget had been low.
Bulgaria's movie industry is going nowhere, I don't see a difference between that movie and a Bulgarian movie before 10 years. Nothing's changed.
There were good movies in the past that had sense in them, although the budget had been low.
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