Romanian Caper 'The Whistlers': A Surprisingly Fast, Peppy, Complex Tune
Writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu's crime flick is "brighter and literally more colorful" than the slow-burn, gray-palette fare you might be expecting.
The films of the Romanian New Wave are above all Romanian; most of them barely acknowledge a world outside the country's borders. The walloping beat of Iggy Pop's "The Passenger" immediately announces that The Whisperers is up to something different. So does the site of the opening scene: the Canary Islands.
The location's sunniness is a shock is not quite a Hollywood-style caper, but by Romanian-cinema standards it qualifies as a romp.
