It’s no big secret that Cristian Mungiu‘s next project was Cannes bound, yesterday’s brief update Palme d’Or winner Mungiu is re-teaming with sales agent Wild Bunch for Tales From The Golden Age is a great indication that the “unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania told in six independent, yet sometimes connected, stories by native directors” will show up on the Croisette in a couple of months from now. When I interviewed the filmmaker [Sept.2007] he was in-between promoting 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days and in the middle of “Tales”.
“I wanted to make a series of short films pasted together based on the late communist times to talk about the system through the small misfortunes in daily life. Finally I discovered at some point that it was too funny as a project and for some people it might come across as a funny way that we lived back then – this is not the way I want to remember it so I decided to make this film to balance the series. Eventually 5 or 6 films of 30 minutes are going to follow. I have wrote them and will produce them but these aren’t going to be my films as an author. I’m going to bring some other directors along – we have three of them in post-production but I don’t know if it will be one more or two more films it depends on the length”.
