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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #7. Corneliu Porumboiu’s A Nine-Minute Interval

Published on January 16, 2013

A Nine-Minute Interval

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
Producers: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu and Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) and newbie Diana Avrămuţ

With his Cannes’ Camera d’or winning debut film, 12:08 East of Bucharest (’06), he deftly captured Romania’s revolution, with his second, the Un Certain Regard in 2009 Jury Prize and Fipresci Prize winning Police, Adjective (’09) Porumboiu’s antithesis of a police thriller where bureaucracy trumps democracy. His third feature falls under the perfect cinematic snack food: the sub-genre of films about filmmaking. Should be just as witty.

Gist: Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache), a young filmmaker apparently working with the digital format.

Release Date: In post-production since December-ish, expect this to be launched at the festival where has been supported by and has made his name. Cannes – Un Certain Regard section for a second time in a row appears likely, unless the Main Competition comes calling.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).