Fresh
A singularly depressing film.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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Children Underground
Overview
Children Underground follows the story of five street children, aged eight to sixteen who live in a subway station in Bucharest, Romania. The street kids are encountered daily by commuting adults, who pass them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of paint to get high with.
Director and cast
- Edet Belzberg Director
- Cristina Ionescu as Herself
- Mihai Alexandre Tudose as Himself
- Violeta 'Macarena' Rosu as Herself
- Ana Turturica as Herself
- Marian Turturica as Himself
- Alexandru Beschina as Himself
- Florin Ionut Calciu as Himself
- Adrian Chiru as Himself
- Romulus Cristescu as Himself
- Ilie Fonfonile as Himself
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Almost unbearably sad.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
Heartbreaking, urgent, unsentimental and unflinching.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Fresh
Edet Belzberg's fearless aesthetic is also a measure of her film's brilliant indictment of any society that can allow its most vulnerable to slip into oblivion.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Fresh
A heartrending act of courage in the guise of a documentary film.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
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