Sunday, July 5, 2009

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The new Romanian cinema so loved at Cannes

Collect prizes at festivals all over the world, but particularly worshiped at Cannes is the new Romanian cinema. Last film in order to win time in the city of Croise t you, is "Poliţist, adjectiv" the 33-year-Corneliu Porumboiu , which has a Cannes award tten or even two. and the story of a young policeman who pawn a teenager accused of peddling hashish from a peer: making the arrest will result in detective a crisis of conscience. The work is a test of maturity for Porumboiu, who had already won Cannes in 2006 with "East of Bucharest", debut film, ironic and poignant comedy about the revolution in 1989 that has dethroned Ceuşeascu (the literal translation of the Romanian title is: 'there was or was not there?').

Remember Umberto D. Dante Remus Lazarescu, 63, star of "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," Cristi Puiu's 2005 film of that photographer's odyssey of an old man and only one hospital to another in the rainy night in Bucharest. Some have likened the new Romanian cinema to Italian neo-realism: i have many traits in common, above all the context that led to the newfound freedom and the 'reconstruction' after the dark years of dictatorship. Here's what he says about Porumboiu, in an interview last April in the journal "Observatory on the Balkans": "This is not a new wave, at least not in programmatic terms. We have no dogma common. At the same time I see that we share the same movie taste. We make a kind of cinema that comes from vita reale, con personaggi che solitamente non vengono trattati, film che parlano della Romania di oggi... Soprattutto direi che cerchiamo di non mistificare, diversamente da quanto avveniva prima della rivoluzione”.

E la Romania di oggi è ovviamente anche immigrazione e voglia di fuggire. “Le ragazze italiane” di Napoleon Helmis (2004) è la storia di due sorelle che lasciano il loro villaggio per andare in Spagna, dove da illegali raccolgono fragole. Al loro ritorno, fingeranno di essere state in Italia. Sulla stessa lunghezza d'onda “Occident”, primo lungometraggio dell'ormai celebre Cristian Mungiu, premiato con la Palma d'Oro 2007 per “4 mesi, 3 settimane, 2 giorni”, film that has had considerable success in Italy and cost less than € 600,000. What is not an isolated case Mungiu, the Romanian cinema makes a virtue of necessity and becomes the tight budget in the strengths of a film without special effects, direct language, simple textures and weaves imaginative stories full of tenderness and bitterness , characteristics which place it next to that of Iran and South Korea, one of the most original and innovative phenomena of recent years.

is a film that questions the current and past attempts to shed light on dark times of communist dictatorship. Away from history with the 's' capital, the new Romanian films strive to show events in the suburbs and provinces, lives submerged and forgotten. Like "Tales from the Golden Age (2009), omnibus film, five episodes and as many directors, one of which is precisely Mungiu, urban legends that resurrects the past few years dell''età gold 'for comedy with Ceuşeascu and surrealism.

The directors of the 'nouvelle vague' Romanian mentioned so far are all 30-40 years old are the baby-boom generation, those born after abortion ban of 1966 (which was inspired by the theme "4 months 3 weeks 2 days), almost all authors out by the Academy of Theatre Arts and Film in Bucharest who have just started their twenties. Do not forget that: Catalin Mitulescu, Ruxandra Zenide, Peter Calin Netzer, Tudor Giurgiu, and Cristian Radu Munteanu Nemescu, who directed "California Dreamin '" (2007), just twenty-seven died in a car accident without completing the work, from gypsy atmosphere à la Kusturica, set in a small Romanian village during the war in Kosovo. Opera of course winning at Cannes.

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