środa, 3 czerwca 2015

Romanian films- Part two



Beyond the Hills (2012)Cristian Mungiu’s return after winning the Palme d’Or for 4 Months… is an equally brilliant drama set in an Orthodox monastery standing on the hills of northern Romania. The real-life premise from which it was inspired sounds like tabloid fodder and it is easy to imagine another director turning this into something utterly exploitative. At the order of a convent’s priest, a young novice nun was bound to a cross in the hope of exorcising demons. 

In the hands of Mungiu, the fictionalised account turns into a slow, rigorously executed drama, made up of long takes and two and a half hours worth of judgement’s deferral. If the film has anything to say about the case, it is that once more, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.


Child’s Pose (2013) - Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose went back home with a Golden Bear from Berlin. It is the first film fully deserving the label of a thriller to come out of the New Wave. The pacing is truly gripping but it is a far more intimate and intelligent piece of work than what we often expect from the genre. For a good deal of Romanian films on this list, bureaucratic corruption is often in the backdrop, casting its long shadow. Unlike none of them, here we are at the heart of it, and it’s a nightmarish upper-middle class family affair.

If you would like to watch more Romanian films I recomand you to watch The rest is Silence, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Tuesday, After Christmas or Aferim. 

3 komentarze:

  1. "The rest is silence" tells the story of the first feature film in Romanian history. "Aferim" is a black and white film about the gypsy who had to run away from the place where he had been working, because of boyar's wife who had felt in love with him. The end of the film is really dramatic and only for people who have strengths. The title means "Bravo!" and is a Turkish word. Confirm, that this two films are worth to watch them. I won't talk about the rest of the films, because I didn't watch them.

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  3. I mean: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Tuesday and After Christmas.

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