Bulgarian cinema earned international attention through its stark, socially engaged films of the communist era, and has since found new confidence in genre work and festival fare. Zift (2008), a bleakly stylish noir shot in crisp black and white, is a good example of that modern edge. Browse Macca's Bulgarian reviews below.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of patience required to sit through a truly slow-burning character study, and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's Bulgarian drama The Lesson certainly tests it. But honestly, the deliberate pacing isn't the film's biggest flaw. The real tension
Rating: 1.5★
There's a particular kind of disappointment that comes not from a film being offensive or catastrophically misguided, but from one that simply fails to justify its own existence. Megdan: Between Water and Fire (released in the UK as Return to the Ring) is that kind of film. It&
Genre Drama
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Genre Documentary
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Genre Thriller
★★½ — Zift (2008)
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