Tag Archives: Romanian cinema

one of the early films about the European migrants problem (Film: Morgen – Marian Crisan, 2010)

Posted on February 27, 2019 by admin

It’s only now that I had the opportunity to see Marian Crisan‘s ‘Morgen‘, a movie made in 2010. It’s a film about a Turkish migrant trying to make his way to Germany, the story happening a decade ago. At that … Continue reading →

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Aferim again, Radu Jude! (Film: Îmi este indiferent dacă vom intra în istorie ca barbari – Radu Jude, 2018)

Posted on September 28, 2018 by admin

I have seen today together with other several hundred of spectators Radu Jude’s most recent film, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (“Îmi este indiferent dacă vom intra în istorie ca barbari”) at the … Continue reading →

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the differences that bring us together (film: Nunta in Basarabia – Nap Toader, 2009)

Posted on March 4, 2018 by admin

Weddings are sometimes odd gatherings that bring together people from different backgrounds, nationalities, identities. Films about weddings have been used too describe not only the folkloric aspects of tradition, but also to deal with rather serious issues beyond relationships – … Continue reading →

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the winter of the film director (Film: Kira Kiralina – Dan Pita, 2014)

Posted on August 28, 2017 by admin

The success of the Romanian cinema in the last decade or so did not spring up from nothing. Although the cinema in Romania was more strictly censored and controlled by propaganda during the Communist period, a handful of talented directors … Continue reading →

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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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sleepy (Film: Somnul insulei – Mircea Veroiu, 1994)

Posted on May 11, 2016 by admin

‘Somnul insulei’ (‘The Sleep of the Island’) is a film that looks today quite tired. Sleepy and tired. It is to some extent a combination of the time it talks about (the Communist dictatorship period) and the time it was … Continue reading →

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Aferim, Radu Jude! (Film: Aferim! – Radu Jude, 2015)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by admin

What critics and audiences call ‘the Romanian New Wave’ is not that new any longer. Already in its teens it has focused on the present times, and the recent past of Romania – the last decade of the Communist era … Continue reading →

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a cinematograhic exercise with no substance (Film: Când se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2013)

Posted on October 20, 2014 by admin

I am following quite closely the development of the Romanian cinema, and Corneliu Porumboiu is one of the directors whose previous work I enjoyed a lot, especially ’12:08 East of Bucharest’ which was a story about the 1989 events of … Continue reading →

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