Today we shoot some tough scenes. Maria’s monolog with her Nokia phone where she was telling “things” to her brother and then the discussion from the kitchen between Ioana and Mrs.Murgea. For the first scene Maria held it together and was off the rails just enough, like the character is demanding. She was talking to Chirila’s robot as if she had loved him her entire life. I’m very curious how this will look on the big screen. This could be one of those 3 great scenes from the entire movie. In the kitchen, we shot about 10 takes until the reel finished. In the script there was the scene with a lot of text and Mrs. Murgea didn’t act it out as she should have almost in all takes. Slight mistakes, not big ones, but those were felt. At the end, I was satisfied with take no.7, but even now the thought that the flies aren’t seen in the setting crosses my head. I asked for flies, but lots of them and I got a jar with 20 dizzy flies. 2 died (I will write this at the end, on the generic). I am paranoid enough to think that this scene didn’t turn out as it should because of the lack of flies, but this is how things stand, I can’t do anything. At the Pintilie films all would have gone home till the production and scenography found flies. I am a humble debutante and I will e happy if I see at least one fly in the scene. And if not, I’ll comfort myself with the thought that the scene could have been better.
Tomorrow I start shooting a tough scene from the end of the film. I won’t say more, just that it’s weird to shoot the end in the 8th day of the shooting. God help

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