Iliyana

Basically, "Containment" is based on a popular Belgian series called "Cordon" but as a whole it's just another poor example of remaking successful European movies/series. I found the original Belgian drama to be quite gripping from the very start and as the story developed, it got better and better.

However this could not be said at all about "Containment" which seemed to me very chaotic and the acting was uninspired and not convincing at all. Compared to the original series where the characters were realistic and very engaging, here the cast didn't do justice to the story and the acting was flat and one dimensional. Even the overuse of cheap cinematographic tricks and dramatic music couldn't save it.

So please ignore the bad acting and the even poorer script here and watch "Cordon" instead! Personally I am hoping for another season of the Belgian series!

What a beautiful and quirky documentary! A documentary that is funny, poetical and social, all at the same time without boring the viewers with false pretences and intellectual babble.

The story reminded me of a mosquito flight – it commences than it stops, it hops on and off the different characters and occasionally it bites. Interestingly the director Andrey Paounov chose to focus on the smallest of creatures — the mosquito — as a way of exploring the bigger issues: what are we here for? How do we live our lives? How did the past affect us and what are we going to do about the future?

And although the whole documentary is based on both humorous and tense juxtapositions, in the end the most important message of the film comes from the mouth of one of the characters: "There are mosquitoes everywhere!" As if he was saying there are problems everywhere but life goes on. We could deal with them and move on!

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!