Review of Milk Teeth (2025)
Seen in 2026.
In 1989, a young girl goes missing in Romania after leaving her family’s apartment to throw away some rubbish. Her ten-year-old sister processes the event with the eyes of a child.
I suppose that director Mihai Mincan was processing his own childhood as a self-described member of Romania’s “lost generation”. István Téglás is good as the policeman investigating the girl’s disappearance, but without an evocable web of personal assocations to this time and place, including places like Cighid, the film is mostly a series of slow close-ups and blurs.