Tag Archives: Radu Jude

a boy with a guitar in the war-torn Europe (film: Merge si-asa – regia Valentin Urziceanu, 2022)

With ‘Merge și-asa’ (the aproximate translation would be ‘It Works, Kind Of’), the team led by director and screenwriter Valentin Urziceanu boldly steps into a cinematic genre in which Romanian cinema has very little tradition and experience – feature film … Continue reading

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every victim had a name and a face (documentary: Iesirea trenurilor din gara – Adrian Cioflâncã, Radu Jude, 2020)

‘The Exit of the Trains‘ is an important and necessary documentary film, which cannot be judged by the criteria by which we judge other films and even documentaries. I dare to compare the format of this film with that of … Continue reading

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the mirror of Radu Jude (film: Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc – Radu Jude, 2021)

I have several reasons to rejoice that Radu Jude‘s ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ received the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, where it was released. One of them is that the film demonstrates that the Romanian … Continue reading

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an inconvenient mirror (Film: Cea mai fericitã fatã din lume – Radu Jude, 2009)

‘This is who we are!’. This is the message that film director Radu Jude repeats obsessively in all his films. He puts an uncomfortable mirror in the face of the sometimes unwilling Romanian spectators, bound to face unpleasant truths about … Continue reading

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Tema Holocaustului în filmul românesc

Câteva filme foarte vizibile și foarte discutate și disputate în spațiul public ar putea crea impresia că Holocaustul este o tema majoră a cinematografiei românești. Lucrurile nu stau deloc așa. Subiectul a fost aproape complet absent din cinematografia românească a … Continue reading

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Aferim again, Radu Jude! (Film: Îmi este indiferent dacă vom intra în istorie ca barbari – Radu Jude, 2018)

I have seen today together with other several hundred of spectators Radu Jude’s most recent film, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (“Îmi este indiferent dacă vom intra în istorie ca barbari”) at the … Continue reading

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the darkest hours (Film: Tara moarta – Radu Jude, 2017)

It so happens (and maybe it was not just a coincidence) that  I have seen ‘The Dead Nation‘ (‘Tara moarta’ in Romanian) at the Haifa International Film Festival the very day that is declared in Romania as the National Holocaust … Continue reading

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Aferim, Radu Jude! (Film: Aferim! – Radu Jude, 2015)

What critics and audiences call ‘the Romanian New Wave’ is not that new any longer. Already in its teens it has focused on the present times, and the recent past of Romania – the last decade of the Communist era … Continue reading

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