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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Mirela Oprisor and Maria Popistasu

Regardless of me never hearing about either of these actresses prior to seeing the film, Mirela Oprisor (small part in Coppola’s Youth Without Youth) and Maria Popistasu (David Yates’ television series Sex Traffic) landed major roles and delivered pitch perfect performances in Radu Muntean’s Tuesday, After Christmas. Oprisor plays the part of the one unaware of bad news about to hit her, while Popistasu plays the part of the one ready to make her own future in this triage drama. The film should find other film festival venues, but I expect both thesps to make further inroads in Romanian and other Euro projects.

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 27, 2010

#4. Mirela Oprisor and Maria Popistasu

Regardless of me never hearing about either of these actresses prior to seeing the film, Mirela Oprisor (small part in Coppola’s Youth Without Youth) and Maria Popistasu (David Yates’ television series Sex Traffic) landed major roles and delivered pitch perfect performances in Radu Muntean’s Tuesday, After Christmas. Oprisor plays the part of the one unaware of bad news about to hit her, while Popistasu plays the part of the one ready to make her own future in this triage drama. The film should find other film festival venues, but I expect both thesps to make further inroads in Romanian and other Euro projects.

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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).