This wise and gentle comedy of politicalrealism, by the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, concerns a local television talk show in a provincial city.
As Republicans struggle to find common ground with Democrats over the budget, conservative leaders have generally been unyielding in their resistance to tax increases on most wealthy Americans, one that defies American political history and budgetary realism, to the point of making a deal impossible.
If lessons learned then had been incorporated into military and political thinking, it would have injected a much needed dose of realism at an early stage.