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Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Friday, 29 March 2013

BEYOND THE HILLS - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Cristian Mungiu delivers harrowing masterwork in the tradition of Dreyer's great work focusing upon the exploitation of women within fundamentalist religions. Playing theatrically in Canada at TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX in Toronto via Mongrel Media.

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Beyond the Hills (2012) ***** dir. Cristian Mungiu Starring: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta Review By Greg Klym...
Friday, 7 September 2012

BEYOND THE HILLS - TIFF 2012 - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Cristian Mungiu's masterpiece captures the insidious way in which women are forced into the sexist, misogynistic and subservient roles prevalent in cultures rooted in the centuries-old Eastern Rite religious traditions.

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Beyond the Hills (2012) ***** dir. Cristian Mungiu Starring: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta Review By Greg Klymkiw...
Friday, 16 March 2012

SUMMER HOLIDAY (aka BOOGIE) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Consider this a Romanian version of Fellini's "I Vitelloni" and Levinson's "Diner" . It's funny, dark and deeply moving.

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Summer Holiday (2008) dir. Radu Muntean Starring: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu, Adrian Vancica, Vlad Muntean ***1/2 ...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Producing and writing this 141-minute omnibus feature film, Cristian Mungiu (who gave us the stunning "4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days") delivers this astonishingly funny and profoundly moving work about life in Romania under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Mungiu directed two of the six shorts, but there is a consistency in both tone and mise-en-scene throughout.

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Tales from the Golden Age (2009) dir. Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Maria Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu Starring: ...