Mother Love vs. the Bureaucracy: Review of Child's Pose

American movies apply a pretty straightforward technique to devastate an audience: build up the emotion; accelerate the cutting; maybe throw in some shouting; add a swell of music; boom, you're there. Things apparently are different in Romania. Maybe Romanians are a more patient people, or we're seeing the remnants of a culture where, not all that long ago, one had to steel oneself from overt expression, lest the unwelcome interest of the Securitate be drawn. In any case, in films like The Death...