{"id":352,"date":"2024-06-02T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=352"},"modified":"2024-06-02T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T11:00:03","slug":"romanian-film-review-este-film-festival-american-independent-film-festival-french-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Romanian film review \u2013 Este Film Festival, American Independent Film Festival &amp; French classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in Sibiu until Sunday, drop by at <a href=\"https:\/\/estefilm.ro\/\">ESTE FILM Festival<\/a>, celebrating its 8th edition. The competition, featuring Romanian short films, is accompanied by a special programme dedicated to Mexican cinema, more precisely Mexico City, and what must be the loveliest mix of recent films, with Bas Devos\u2019 tender <em>Here<\/em> (easily my favourite of 2023), Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki\u2019s deadpan <em>Fallen Leaves<\/em>, and Alice Rohrwacher\u2019s magical <em>La Chimera<\/em>, all stories of romance and wonder.<\/p>\n<p>In Bucharest, the <a href=\"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/en\/\">American Independent Film Festival<\/a>, also at its 8th edition, will kick off on 7 June (until 13 June, and also travelling to Bran castle), and it brings both fresh fare and some fab classics. The new(er) films include Rose Glass\u2019 lesbian romance\/ small-town crime genre bender (featuring bodybuilding) <em>Love Lies Bleeding<\/em>, Alexander Payne\u2019s period comedy <em>The Holdovers<\/em>, with a potential to become a perfectly acerbic Christmas classic, and Nathan Temple\u2019s wonderfully sweet, awkward and uplifting <em>Between the Temples<\/em>. The classics are no less impressive, from Roger Corman\u2019s homage to Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s Gothic horror <em>The House of Usher<\/em> (1960) to another horror classic, David Lynch\u2019s must-see <em>Twin Peaks <\/em>(1990), season 1, screened in all its brilliant, twisted, mind-spelling glory of seven hours. I cannot praise this series enough; it was formative viewing when it hit TV screens in the 1990s. Once seen, never forgotten. Lynch creates images and moods that burn into your retina and brain.<\/p>\n<p>To bridge the time, Elvire Popescu cinema, always reliably good, has been screening classics to celebrate 100 years of the French Institute in Romania, such as Carl Theodor Dryer\u2019s masterpiece <em>The Passion of Jeanne d\u2019Arc<\/em>, one of the most shattering, powerful films ever made. On a lighter note, but no less wonderful, Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut is one of THE hugely influential French directors, and his endearing coming-of-age marvel <em>The 400 Blows<\/em> (1959) has lost none of its freshness. I am particularly happy to see they&#8217;ve also programmed my favourite Truffaut, the hilarious, self-referential <em>Day for Night<\/em> (1973), about a movie set and all its challenges. A hard-to-direct cat steals the show. Check out the screenings <a href=\"https:\/\/eventbook.ro\/hall\/cinema-elvire-popesco?page=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ioana Moldovan, columnist, <a href=\"mailto:ioana.moldovan@romania-insider.com\">ioana.moldovan@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo info &amp; source: still from <\/em>Here<em> @ESTE FILM Festival)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-field-provider-youtube video-embed-field-responsive-video\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-field-provider-youtube video-embed-field-responsive-video\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-field-provider-youtube video-embed-field-responsive-video\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in Sibiu until Sunday, drop by at ESTE FILM Festival, celebrating its 8th edition. The competition, featuring Romanian short films, is accompanied by a special programme dedicated to Mexican cinema, more precisely Mexico City, and what must be the loveliest mix of recent films, with Bas Devos\u2019 tender Here (easily my favourite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}