Monthly Archives: September 2019

an ambiguous thriller (Film: L’amour est un crime parfait – Mathieu Amalric, 2013)

Posted on September 28, 2019 by admin

‘Love is the Perfect Crime’ (‘L’amour est un crime parfait’ in French) is one of the most formidable movie titles I can remember. A title that promises a combination of thriller and love story, which is indeed part of what … Continue reading →

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the nightmare of the nightingale (Film: The Nightingale – Jennifer Kent, 2018)

Posted on September 27, 2019 by admin

I rarely have the opportunity to watch Australian films. Some of the actors and directors from the antipodes continent made brilliant careers in Hollywood, but Australian films rarely enjoy international distribution. Maybe unfairly, because the ones I managed to see … Continue reading →

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a theater love story (Film: Edmond – Alexis Michalik, 2018)

Posted on September 26, 2019 by admin

I saw the play ‘Edmond’ written and staged by Alexis Michalik in Paris almost two years ago. The show had received five Molieres prizes (the supreme distinctions of the French theater) and impressed me with the combination of modernism and … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Gunoiul cosmic

Posted on September 24, 2019 by admin

Terra nu numai că este poluată, dar ea și poluează Universul. Despre poluarea planetei noastre sub diferitele ei forme și despre impactul pe care aceasta o are asupra mediului în care trăim și a vieților noastre s-a publicat și discutat … Continue reading →

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Coppola dreams Eliade (Film: Youth Without Youth – Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)

Posted on September 23, 2019 by admin

‘Youth Without Youth‘ was a complete surprise to me. It is probably the least understood film of Francis Ford Coppola. Made in 2007 and filmed largely in Romania, it faithfully screens a late novella by Mircea Eliade, written in 1976. … Continue reading →

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creative crisis (TV series: Kim Kong – Jonathan Lambert, 2017)

Posted on September 21, 2019 by admin

Mathieu Stannis, the hero of the French television mini-series ‘Kim Kong‘ is a French film director, a disciple of the New Wave. He is very blasé and is in crisis of ideas, which is not surprising, more than half a … Continue reading →

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clash of the giants (documentary: Karajan – Bernstein, le combat des chefs – Emmanuelle Franc, 2015)

Posted on September 19, 2019 by admin

Herbert von Karajan was born in 1908 and died in July 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Leonard Bernstein was born in 1918 and died in October 1990, and in one of his last … Continue reading →

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caravan of terror (Film: Caravana cinematografica – Titus Muntean, 2009)

Posted on September 18, 2019 by admin

The movie caravans have a history that is worth exploring. It begins a century ago in Russia immediately after the Bolshevik revolution. The regime established by Lenin and Stalin noticed early the propaganda force of the young art of cinema … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Kurt Vonnegut – SF sau contracultură?

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Care sunt frontierele genurilor literare și cinematografice? Dar cele dintre ‘cultura înaltă’ (traducând literal arogantul Hochkultur din limba germană) și cultura populară? Unul dintre exemplele cele mai interesante într-o asemenea dezbatere mi-a fost reamintit de vizionarea filmului ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (‘Abatorul cinci’), … Continue reading →

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the unbelievable past (Documentary: Utopia impusa – Marius Barna, 2010)

Posted on September 15, 2019 by admin

The documentary film ‘Utopia impusa‘ (‘The Imposed Utopia’) was made in 2009. That was the year of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Romania, and screenwriter Lucian Dan Teodorovici and director Marius Barna felt the … Continue reading →

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