Tag Archives: Vlad Ivanov

the Metronom generation (film: Metronom – Alexandru Belc, 2022)

Posted on January 19, 2024 by admin

‘Metronom‘ (2022) by the Romanian director Alexandru Belc is not a film about the legendary radio show ‘Metronom’ from Radio Free Europe but about the Metronom generation. For viewers who were lucky enough not to know what the life of … Continue reading →

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uncertain moonlight (film: Crai nou / Blue Moon – Alina Grigore, 2021)

Posted on September 25, 2021 by admin

‘Crai nou‘ (2021) (distributed internationally with the title ‘Blue Moon‘) is a debut film, but Alina Grigore, its script author and director, is not a debutante in cinema. On the contrary, it can be said that she already has a … Continue reading →

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faith and corruption (film: Servants – Ivan Ostrochovský, 2020)

Posted on February 23, 2021 by admin

The story in ‘Servants‘, the film made in 2020 by the Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovsky takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1980. It had been 12 years since the ‘Prague Spring’, an attempt to peacefully reform the communist system that had … Continue reading →

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excessive minimalism (film: Police, Adjective – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)

Posted on November 16, 2020 by admin

It took me more than a decade to get to see Corneliu Porumboiu‘s second film, made in 2009, ‘Police, Adjective‘. The film presented and award-winner at Cannes and other important festivals of that year was one of the most representative … Continue reading →

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gangsters ‘film noir’ made in Romania (Film: La Gomera / The Whistlers – Cornel Porumboiu, 2019)

Posted on January 13, 2020 by admin

The maturity of a film school is measured not only by masterpieces or films awarded with gold at major festivals, but also by ‘average’ movies, belonging to popular genres or film niches. If this criterion is correct, then we can … Continue reading →

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amurg de imperiu (Film: Napszállta – László Nemes, 2018)

Posted on June 18, 2019 by admin

1913 is a year that fascinates me. It was the last year of an order that reigned in Europe and the world for almost a century, established at the Congress of Vienna that had traced in 1814-15 the borders of … Continue reading →

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a case of bad education (Film: Un pas in urma serafimilor – Daniel Sandu, 2017)

Posted on April 21, 2019 by admin

‘One Step Behind the Seraphim‘, the film that concluded for me the Romanian Film Festival that took place this week in Israel, reminded me Pedro Almodóvar‘s “Bad Education” in many ways. Both films can be seen as recovery exercises from … Continue reading →

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strong and violent frontier character drama (film: Caini – Bogdan Mirica, 2016)

Posted on October 27, 2016 by admin

The landscape plays a central role in Dogs (Caini) the first long feature film of Romanian director Bogdan Mirica. Visuals, actually, together with acting play the most important tasks in this film, which is very different from many other features … Continue reading →

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teatru bun, ca altadata (‘Omul cel bun din Seciuan’ la Teatrul Bulandra in regia lui Andrei Serban)

Posted on December 16, 2015 by admin

M-am simtit in acea seara dintre putinele petrecute in scurta mea vizita bucuresteana de acum cateva zile, ca transportat si transfigurat in timp cu vreo patru decenii si mai bine in urma, in anii de vraja in care Liviu Ciulei … Continue reading →

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the distructive power of love (Film: Pozitia copilului – Calin Peter Netzer, 2013)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by admin

With Pozitia Copilului (Child’s Pose)  the Romanian cinema seems to complete a cycle that started almost a decade ago with Moartea Domnului Lazarescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu). The path was marked by a number of prizes at important cinema … Continue reading →

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