Cristi Puiu’s MMXX revisits the year he whipped up a bunch of coronavirus controversy with a typically austere anthology that lacks the smarts of his best work.
MMXX. Cristi Puiu Revisits his Annus Horribilis Through Lengthy Anthology.
Tag: Romania
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World / Malleable Monochrome Monotony Unfurls
History, traffic, corporate malfeasance and toxic online culture combine in Radu Jude’s genre-bending new film Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World.
Unexplainable Orthodoxies in Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife.
The paradoxes at the heart of the Romanian Orthodox Church are teasingly explored in Alexandru Solomon’s latest hybrid documentary — live from KVIFF.
Transylvania International Film Festival Day Three: Slănină and Sinking Time
Both tasty cured pork fat, generous, curious documentaries and a moment of pure cinema magic, made for a good day at Translyvania International Film Festival.
Transylvania International Film Festival Day One: Nord-Rhein-Transylvania
I spent all day travelling to Romania — but somehow my first day at Transylvania International Film Festival turned out to be all about Nord-Rhein-Westphalia.
Cottbus Film Festival Day One: A Continent in Collapse
Day one of the Cottbus Film Festival expertly shows the major fault-lines running through the seams of Eastern European society.