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Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate.

Oscilloscope Laboratories have picked up a companion film of sorts to the acquisition they made in April with Howl which is set for a late September release. Yony Leyser's docu William S. Burroughs: A Man Within will be set for a fall theatrical release and ties in perfectly with the Ginsberg flick - as they were both the founding members of the Beat Generation.

From the beginning, I wanted to craft the film as a sort of Memento mori piece. I was very interested in Vanitas paintings from the 16th and 17th century. These paintings were crafted usually as still life and meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death.

At the beginning when we have the concept of the story. Once we know we have a revenge story, we open the book of details and see what we can use. For example the story of the sugar and coffee or the mine in the football field which I had in mind for 20 years. I have boxes of ideas and details like that. It's pre-occupation to have a rich movie. For some people it's too much and too many details.

Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother edged out Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique, claiming the top prize and collecting a total of five trophies, beating Villeneuve's film by one. Since Cannes last May, both films have been pitted against each other: while Villeneuve's film had the edge on the Quebecois box office front and received acclaim at Canada's Oscars (Genies), it was the debut film from Dolan that overwhelmed audiences on a global level, winning at several film festivals including three in Cannes