Intimate Bed (1993) User Reviews

deep bitter

[Vincentiu · 20 June 2014]

one of movies who presents Romania after Communism fall. bitter, cruel, sarcastic, dark, cold. a film about lost of hope and impossibility of escape from a dark circle. more important, a Mircea Daneliuc film. one of the great from his filmography because it is chronicle of a form of social madness and image of a free society in a profound crisis. the choice for Gheorghe Dinica and Coca Bloos for lead roles is more than inspired. a film about lost of life sense, it is a precious moral lesson and analysis of a world in search of its sense. that fact transforms the story in the not comfortable state after its end. strange taste, cruel verdict. and a film as remind of basic truth.

A very special movie!

[RodrigAndrisan · 10/10 · 17 November 2019]

In this film there are many actors who have worked with Mircea Daneliuc also in other films. Many of them are no longer alive. An actor who is also not anymore among us and who worked with Daneliuc only on this film is Gheorghe Dinica. In fact, he is the movie. Dinica was one of the best actors of all time, not only among Romanian actors, but from everywhere. The others, in my humble opinion being: Toma Caragiu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila and Puiu Calinescu. All 4 were excellent comedy actors, the likes of Benny Hill, Peter Sellers, Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Rowan Atkinson. Unfortunately, they were all born in communist Romania and played only in Romanian films, made in the communist regime. But even so, and even more so that they had to show their talents in communism, they managed to win the love of all Romanians and beyond. All 4 were excellent in the drama too, with the exception of Puiu Calinescu, who excelled only in comedy and, in my humble opinion, is the biggest comic actor Romania has ever given (the communist canons did not allow him to demonstrate extensively, to its true value, his huge native talent). Dinica is the only one who has survived the freedom years since 1989. And he has achieved some excellent roles in freedom too. Such a role is in this film. In fact, any film with Gheorghe Dinica, made in communism or after, is a very good film, due to its simple presence, Dinica having the rare strength to become the film itself, such a immense personality he was. And, like all great genius people, he was a simple, modest man in private life. I met him and we changed a few sentences sometime in the 80s, in the inner courtyard of the Central Romaniafilm institution on Iulius Fucik street, where I worked for 5 years as a simple worker at the advertising department.

Mircea Daneliuc

[Kirpianuscus · 17 June 2016]

in new context, the same honest image of reality. cruel honesty, bitter irony, scenes from a strange beginning, fight for survive and to build basic sense to the events. different by many Romanian movies after 1990 for the nuances who explores the lost of hope. the atmosphere is the same. and that does Patul conjugal special. in 1993 , it was perceived as support for political message. today, it reflects the same reality. because it is the story of a man looking escape from the pressure of a never ending crisis. and that does the film of Daneliuc useful. the science to explore the detail in its each piece. the definition of context using a case. the science to choice the right cast for describe the terror of every day reality. and the end for the fall of hope.