Tag: Ioachim Stroe

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...

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...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.