Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)

• Year: 2015
• Released: 27 Apr 2018
• Country: Romania
• Adwords: 5 wins & 14 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3176980/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/be_my_cat_a_film_for_anne
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• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English, Romanian
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 87 min
• Writer: Adrian Tofei
• Director: Adrian Tofei
• Cast: Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton
• Keywords: kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, anti hero, exploitation, dark comedy,

	5.7/10
	88% – Critics
	67% – Audience

Be My Cat: A Film for Anne Storyline

An aspiring Romanian filmmaker and actor obsessed with Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway tries to convince her to come to Romania and star alongside him in his upcoming film. He goes to shocking extremes using three local actresses to shoot demo scenes to send to Anne as proof of his filmmaking and acting skills.—Adrian Tofei

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Be My Cat: A Film for Anne Movie Reviews

At last, a piece of art that adds to the flooded found footage genre.

Is this film perfect? Absolutely not. Is this film good? Absolutely! Great? That’s for you to decide, however I loved the flick and I’m sure select others will as well.

It’s quite rare a found footage movie introduces a new theme into the flooded “low budget”, “starting director”, “easy out” punching bag of a genre FF has become. With that being said, this movie certainly shakes things up, adding a brand new perspective. The realism of the movie is shocking and encompasses a sophistication not shared my many other films. Psychologically thrilling with an appropriate amount of gore / sadism, lacking any “over the top” undesirable rubbish (yes, I’m talking about you Extreme genre of filmography).

The average viewer may not be attracted to this, and yes, a bit of depravity can be found within this 87min of entertainment.

Plot : 8/10 Script : 9/10 Acting : 7/10 Gore : 6/10 (but I’m a bit of a gore hound)

Overall I will rate this at 7/10, as I do feel there’s some room for improvement.

Cannot wait to see what director/actor Adrian Tofei has in store for us.

Found footage at its best

I had the opportunity to check Be My Cat, and it is pretty difficult to describe the film. Not often am I up to watch a thriller like this as I wouldn’t say we are talking about a horror. Indeed, it has its elements, but rather one has to deal with a clever psycho- thriller.

Adrian Tofei is an OK writer as I think he unfortunately wrote extremely naive girls into his script. He is a good director as the “film-in-a-film” concept works pretty well. But he is a superb actor. Period. I was amazed by some of his monologues and the chemistry between Alexandra Stroe and him. By the way, the two should be discovered soon as actors. The last 15 minutes they did together was more than fascinating.

Unfortunately, negative points arose as well as some effects – yes, blood – could have been better and after I finished the movie, I had a funny feeling, Mr Tofei might have forgotten to finish his movie in a proper way.

Even if you are fed up with found footage genre, you should give a chance to Be My Cat. Nicely acted, well-executed and memorable scenes what it can offer. An innovative, brave and groundbreaking film.

Found footage movie magic

As far as I can remember Be My Cat is the very first Romanian movie I have ever seen in my life. At first I did not even know what to expect from the film. After 87 minutes I was completely amazed!

One of the most courageous and stunning elements of this production is Adrian Tofei. The way he portrays the protagonist of the film is amazing. You never really know what to think about his character…at first you think he is just an innocent filmmaker from a small town who tries to pursuit his dreams. Even the camera-work and the found footage style itself strengthen this idea in you.

Sometimes you just laugh on his actions but somehow they remind you all the things you did in the past as an amateur filmmaker. Sometimes you are shocked because of him. It is really difficult to play such a complex role as this but Mr. Tofei did that without any mistake.

Let me talk about the female characters. Both Sonia Teodoriu and Florentina Hariton did a great job and did their best to portray their characters however unfortunately they were written a little bit too naive. On the other hand Alexandra Stroe and the last 15-20 minutes between her and Mr. Tofei was fascinating. That was the part of the film when I really saw a strong bond between the two characters and it made Ms. Stroe the most powerful female character in the motion picture.

As the previous review mentioned before, the visual effects – fake blood – were unfortunately not so well made and the ending of the film could have been done in other ways.

All in all, Be My Cat is a very brave, original, well-executed film with memorable scenes and a fantastic protagonist but what is the greatest achievement it has gained is its existence. Adrian Tofei and his crew proved that you can do movie magic without millions of dollars but with creativity and commitment to your work and that can raise hope for every independent filmmaker all over the world.