{"id":1080,"date":"2024-07-26T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T16:03:17","slug":"romanian-film-review-open-airs-for-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Romanian film review \u2013 Open Airs for the Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traditionally, summer has always generated new, alternative spaces for showing films, and generally more diverse screenings: documentaries, fiction, hybrid, features, many shorts. We have already covered some for you<\/a>; here are a few of my recommendations, in more detail.<\/h4>\n

In Bra\u0219ov, Caravana Metropolis<\/strong> is bringing a beautiful selection to Titulescu park until 28 July. From Nikolaj Arcel\u2019s epic, stark period drama The Promised Land\/ Bastarden<\/em>; and the elegance of Tran Anh Hung\u2019s gourmet romance The Taste of Things\/ La passion de Dodin Bouffant<\/em>; to one of my current favourites, Levan Akin\u2019s Crossing<\/em>. A road movie with a very unlikely (buddy) duo in Instanbul, the drama is a lovely plea for love and acceptance, a queer story with a most serious core that (unbelievably) makes for wonderfully moving, funny, uplifting viewing. And the city itself is a charmer. What a great choice to also include an animation, Mascha Halberstad\u2019s adorable Fox and Hare Save the Forest<\/em>. You can check out the details on their Facebook page<\/a>. The screenings are free.<\/p>\n

Bucharest has always had solid options for outdoor screenings, also thanks to its warm evenings that continue way into autumn. Two more recent ones are remarkable in their ambitious curation. Masca theatre (14 Uverturii boulevard) is providing the location for the first edition of CineMasca <\/strong><\/a>(until 28 September), focusing on films with theatrical, performative features \u2014 true to its host. Past screenings include Claire Denis\u2019 sublime take on masculinity and (repressed) desire Beau Travail<\/em>, easily one of the most (homo)erotic movies ever made; Alexandru Badea\u2019s Magnificient Sky<\/em>, a portrait of avantgarde musicians Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Ichim; or outrageosly funny (and outrageous) Polyester<\/em> by the one and only John Waters, also known as \u201cthe Pope of Trash\u201d. If you are confused by the monicker, check him out and you will understand. Future screenings include Alain Resnais\u2019 playful musical comedy Same Old Song\/ On conna\u00eet la chanson<\/em> and one of the best comedies ever (and no less topical today): Ernst Lubitsch\u2019s To Be or Not to Be<\/em>. One of the best \u201eanti-Nazi\u201d comedies \u2014 THE unequalled one must be Charlie Chaplin\u2019s The Great Dictator <\/em>\u2014<\/em> , it centres on a group of Polish actors who literally act their way out of Nazi-occupatied Warsaw. Energetic, witty, and endlessly quotable, it is a fantastic movie.<\/p>\n

Even more ambitious in their programming of rare films, CINEVARA<\/strong> (until 3 October) shows feature films from the years of Socialism, and as shown then, introduced by short films: news reels, educational films, films on labour etc. Also good to know: the films are watched in silence, i.e. with headphones. These are the big names in Eastern European cinema, from (today\u2019s) Moldova-born and later Odessa-based Kira Muratova (Getting to Know The Big Wide World<\/em>\/ Poznavaya belyy svet<\/em>), East-Germany\u2019s Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Solo Sunny<\/em>), and (then Yugoslavia, now) Serbia-born \u017delimir \u017dilnik<\/em> (Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time\/ Tito po drugi put me\u0111u Srbim<\/em>). What might look like a grey, drab selection if in fact irreverent, playful, original, and full of wit and colour. A wonderful programme indeed. Check out the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By Ioana Moldovan, columnist, ioana.moldova<\/a>n@<\/a>romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo: still from The Taste of Things, courtesy of Caravana Metropolis)<\/em><\/p>\n

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