January 31, 2021
2011-2020, Cristian Mungiu, Drama, Romania
2,244 Views
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In an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage.
Alina wants Voichita to leave and return with her to Germany, but Voichita has found refuge in faith and a family in the nuns and their priest, and refuses. Alina cannot understand her friend’s choice. In her attempt to win back Voichita’s affection, she challenges the priest. She is taken to hospital and the people of the monastery start to suspect that she is possessed. —Wild Bunch Read More »
January 1, 2021
1981-1990, Arthouse, Drama, Lucian Pintilie, Romania
604 Views
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Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution. Read More »
December 31, 2020
2001-2010, Comedy, Drama, Lucian Pintilie, Romania
587 Views
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A very black comedy (and virtually unknown in the U.S.), Niki and Flo is about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage. Angela and her husband have decided to leave Romania for a better life in the United States. Niki, Angela’s father, who is also a former colonel in the Romanian army, is torn between his wish to see his daughter happy and his desire to have her close by; meanwhile Flo, the father of Niki’s son-in-law and a domestic tyrant of sorts, slowly exerts his control over Niki. Courtesy of Filmex Romania. Based on a screen play by Cristi Puiu. Read More »
October 11, 2020
1961-1970, Drama, Malvina Ursianu, Romania
852 Views
In this truly memorable film, the actuality perpetuates the souls of intellectuals always riddled with dilemmas. Nicolae Girardi could exercise his unparalleled portraiture talent entrusting the film with the faces of great actors Read More »
September 23, 2020
2011-2020, Cristi Puiu, Drama, Romania
2,245 Views
IMDb wrote:
A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated. Read More »
July 19, 2020
2011-2020, Alexander Nanau, Documentary, Romania
1,399 Views
Synopsis
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens. Read More »
July 11, 2020
1951-1960, Comedy, Jean Georgescu, Romania
623 Views
IMDb wrote:
Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity.
Lucian Lupescu review wrote:
In this comedy, the manager (Alexandru Giugaru) of an institution is challenged, during a meeting where he hands out bonuses to everyone, by a worker who says he doesn’t deserve that bonus. Encouraged by another worker, Maria Popescu (Angela Chiuaru), he manages to convince everyone to give the money back. Everyone except for the lazy clerk Ciubuc (Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic), who sneaks out quickly with his bonus. Read More »
