Tag: Cinema of Romania
Under Communist Rule: Cristi Puiu’s “La Saint-André des loups” Set for Spring Shoot
Pre-pandemic, Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu had been working on "Hora staccato," set in May 1950 Bucharest, where police rounded up dignitaries and imprisoned them....
Three Kilometres To The End Of The World | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
It Can’t Happen Here: Parvu’s Agonizing Procedural on Small Town Homophobia
For his third feature, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Romanian director...
MMXX | 2023 San Sebastián Intl. Film Festival Review
Hindsight, 20/20: Puiu Contemplates the Comedy of Crisis
Mercury is most definitely in retrograde for the four principal characters in MMXX, the latest foray into...
R.M.N. | Review
On a Racist Day You Can See Forever: Mungiu Confronts Nationalism in Fractious Drama
On the surface, R.M.N., the latest feature from Romanian New Wave...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #21. Cristi Puiu’s MMXX
MMXX
With lengthy time between film projects it always feels like an event film when there is a new Cristi Puiu in the works. Best...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #42. Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect too Much of the End of the World
Do Not Expect too Much of the End of the World
It has been quite an astonishing creative couple of years for Romanian filmmaker Radu...
Interview: Mara Bugarin & Șerban Lazarovici – Metronom
His filmography actually dates back to being a script supervisor on masterwork 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, so Romanian filmmaker Alexandru Belc...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Review
Stand & Deliver: Jude Doubles Up on the Viral in Kangaroo Court
Leave it to Radu Jude to take a sad song and make it...
Uppercase Print | Review
Capital Crimes: The Play’s the Thing in Jude’s Rendering of Secret Police Files
Romanian director Radu Jude lets no grass grow under his feet, back...
Malmkrog | Review
Ollie Ollie Oligarchy: Puiu Weighs the World That Was in Long Form
For what stands as his sixth narrative feature, Malmkrog, Romanian New Wave auteur...
Unidentified | 2020 Warsaw Intl. Film Festival Review
Lethal Weapon: Apetri’s Intricate & Unpredictable Tale of Revenge Dips into The Swamp
After tackling social realism with genre filmmaking underpinnings in Outbound, Romanian director...
The Whistlers | Review
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle: Porumboiu Goes Mainstream with Neo-noir
Romanian New Wave alum Corneliu Porumboiu makes a marked departure with his latest...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #35. Uppercase Print – Radu Jude
Uppercase Print
One of the latter figures of the Romanian New Wave, Radu Jude, also remains one of the busiest. He returns to the nightmare...
Carturan | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Pray the Lord My Soul To Take: Sandulescu’s Poignant and Witty Meditation on Mortality
Liviu Săndulescu’s Carturan is a tale about bribery, the uncaring bureaucratic...
Criterion Collection: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Blu-ray Review
The crown jewel of the New Romanian Cinema was Cristian Mungiu’s controversial abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which took...
Monsters. | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time to Leave: Olteanu’s Debut Examines the Strain of Sacrifice in Studied Marital Drama
The relationship at the center of Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s carefully...
Touch Me Not | Review
Touch All This Skin: Pintilie’s Hybrid Sexcapade Explores the Fleeting, Obscure Nature of Intimacy
With her narrative debut Touch Me Not, Romanian director Adina Pintilie...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #47. The Passenger – Corneliu Porumboiu
The Passenger
Another New Romanian Wave essential, Corneliu Porumboiu borrows a moniker from Antonioni for his fifth feature, The Passenger (previously known as Gomera). A...