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strong and violent frontier character drama (film: Caini – Bogdan Mirica, 2016)

Posted on October 27, 2016 by admin

The landscape plays a central role in Dogs (Caini) the first long feature film of Romanian director Bogdan Mirica. Visuals, actually, together with acting play the most important tasks in this film, which is very different from many other features … Continue reading →

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lost generations (film: Bacalaureat – Cristian Mungiu, 2016)

Posted on October 24, 2016 by admin

The Romanian ‘New Wave’ is not that new any longer. For the last decade Romanian directors succeeded to surprise viewers and juries with their films dealing with hardships of life under the Communist dictatorship, and about the period that followed … Continue reading →

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‘drole de famille’ (film: Ilegitim – Adrian Sitaru, 2016)

Posted on October 20, 2016 by admin

‘Ilegitim’ (or ‘Ilegitimate’ in English) starts with a very normal family scene. Around the family table we see the father (Adrian Titieni), a man in his late 50s (we’ll soon learn that he lost his wife one year and a … Continue reading →

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guilt and responsibility (film: La fille inconnue – Dardenne brothers, 2016)

Posted on October 17, 2016 by admin

It’s a small and dull city as many other in Belgium and Europe. It is inhabited by a mixed population, ‘local’ Europeans, more recent but well integrated Europeans (some of them are police inspectors), recent immigrants, some legal, some not. … Continue reading →

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An Abstract Impressionist behind the Iron Curtain – The Art of Romul Nutiu

Posted on October 12, 2016 by admin

Works by Romul Nutiu (1932 – 2012), a formidable Romanian artist influenced by Abstract Expressionism, carrying it further and developing it into a flamboyant and solid corp of works.       From the Wikipedia article dedicated to the artist: … Continue reading →

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when games work (Film: Oblivion – Tom Cruise, 2013)

Posted on September 6, 2016 by admin

I liked many things in ‘Oblivion‘, actually more than I expected. I am no fan of computer games, certainly not of these that are dominated by machine guns and laser guns, by cars races and space-ships races – and there … Continue reading →

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The Silk Road of sharing cultures (Film: The Music of Strangers – Yo-Yo Ma, 2015)

Posted on September 3, 2016 by admin

Music documentaries can be fascinating in many cases. This is the case of The Music of Strangers, the documentary produced and directed by Morgan Neville which tells the story of the wonderful musical adventure and inter-culture experience which is ‘The … Continue reading →

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the horror movie that could have been (Film: The Noonday Witch – Jiri Sádek, 2016)

Posted on September 2, 2016 by admin

I know that it’s some kind of an unfair comparison, but so it happens that I have seen Jiri Sádek‘s The Noonday Witch (the original name is Polednice – Midday) at the Czech film festival, and then Pedro Almodóvar‘s Julieta in … Continue reading →

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my first 10/10 in years (Film: Julieta – Pedro Almodovar, 2016)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by admin

I loved ‘Julieta‘. Pedro Almodovar’s 2016 production is one of those films that captivates the viewers during the whole duration of the screening because of the mastering of story telling and by using human emotions. Other directors may do the … Continue reading →

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the team slowly comes together … but is it not too late? (Film: Star Trek Beyond – Justin Lin, 2016)

Posted on August 31, 2016 by admin

It takes time to build mythology. The original Star Trek was a TV show that ran for years and was followed by next and other generations of space-ships, commanders and crews, some of them memorable, other easier to forget. The … Continue reading →

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