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      The Color of the Chameleon

      2012 1h 51m Comedy Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 22% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score An ex-police informant (Ruscen Vidinliev) recruits intellectuals to spy on each other, then he keeps an archive of secrets. After the fall of communism, he uses the archive to wreak havoc on the government. Read More Read Less

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      Nicolas Rapold Film Comment Magazine Bulgarian cinema has, for many years, been close to nonexistent, but Christov and Todorov's fervid fictions might just start to fill the void. Jun 14, 2013 Full Review Chris Cabin Slant Magazine The filmmakers are too busy being sarcastic to ever actually be beholden to the film's trippy conceptions and political paranoia they intermittently engage with in the film. Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 16, 2013 Full Review Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Will best reward those who are prepared to pay attention and stick with its twirls and pirouettes until the complex pay-off. Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 9, 2013 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions... Rated: 0/4 Sep 20, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Very good movie! Interesting and sometimes funny plot. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Fjärde filmen jag såg på Stockholm Filmfestival 2012. Lockades in i biosalongen av löften om en spionhistoria full med intrigmakeri. Vad jag fick var en rörig soppa full av plumpa, underarbetade skämt staplade på varandra. Mycket besviken. Synd. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Toronto International Film Festival 2012. Bulgarian movie about a spy who creates his own conspiracies to get back at a spy agency who fires him. I don't know whose fault this is; the fact that the screening was at 9:45 am in the morning (which meant that I had to Blue Night bus the way downtown), or the fact the movie was really fucking boring that I fell asleep halfway through the movie and didn't wake up until 15 minutes before it ended. It was just so boring. It was not funny - apparently it was supposed to be a comedy?! I thought that it was supposed to be a spy thriller - and there were so many complicated Bulgarian/Russian names/terms in the script, I got so confused. So in the end, at the end of the screening, I ran after the volunteer usher in the theatre just so she could catch me up on what happened in the film. I'm sure it was funny for others but from the short time I was awake watching it, not a lot of people laughed and many people were impatiently shifting in their seats. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A mess, but an entertaining one Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis An ex-police informant (Ruscen Vidinliev) recruits intellectuals to spy on each other, then he keeps an archive of secrets. After the fall of communism, he uses the archive to wreak havoc on the government.
      Director
      Emil Hristow
      Screenwriter
      Vladislav Todorov
      Genre
      Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      Bulgarian
      Runtime
      1h 51m