Tuesday, December 05, 2023

A home grown rainbow

Finnish-Bulgarian movie Laupias taksikuski (The Good Driver), by Tonislav Hristov, looks like a Finnish-Bulgarian movie. It's untalkative and not too uplifting story of a poor taxi driver in Sunny Beach who wants to move to Finland to regularly see his 18 year old son. To make better profit, he drives Syrian refugees which is illegal and quite dangerous. It's not good or bad, you just shrug your shoulders after finishing it and do something else.

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