It’s not exactly a rip roaring laugh out loud rib cracker as the packaging seems to suggest. However, it is a bleakly comic film about a man experiencing liver failure and being admitted to hospital where, as the title suggests, he dies.

The Death of Mr Lazarescu explores that uncomfortable zone where institutional care buckles under the weight of its own bureaucracy. Instead of being a place of healing and recovery, the hospital is a warzone riven by petty squabbling over professional status and the stamping and signing of forms to get various parties off the hook should anything go wrong.

Filmed in an almost verite style, it actually feels like you’re going through this in real time. Excellent central performances by Ion Fiscuteanu as Mr Lazarescu and Luminita Gheorghiu as Mioara the nurse paramedic who gets stuck with Mr L during this night from hell.

This really does capture what it’s like to work and interact with various levels of a hospital environment. Worth seeing if only to hope that you never end up in the same place.