Tag Archives: Serban Pavlu

this is not a game (film: Mikado – Emanuel Parvu, 2021)

I confess that had to use Google after watching the Romanian film ‘Mikado‘ (2021) directed by Emanuel Parvu to decipher its title. I found out that mikado is a game that I knew as a child under the name ‘Marocco‘ … Continue reading

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interesting cinema, lacking emotion (Film: Monstri – Marius Olteanu, 2019)

Director and script author Marius Olteanu, at his first feature film, demonstrates in ‘Monsters‘ that he knows the job. The film, which on these days made its debut on the Romanian screens in Cluj at TIFF and which I saw … Continue reading

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an inconvenient mirror (Film: Cea mai fericitã fatã din lume – Radu Jude, 2009)

‘This is who we are!’. This is the message that film director Radu Jude repeats obsessively in all his films. He puts an uncomfortable mirror in the face of the sometimes unwilling Romanian spectators, bound to face unpleasant truths about … Continue reading

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pointless (film: Charleston – Andrei Cretulescu, 2017)

Ioana, the main character in ‘Charleston‘ directed by Andrei Cretulescu appears on the screen only in the first minute of the movie. We see her in a cafe, she gets a message on her phone, she runs out, turns the … Continue reading

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