{"id":4521,"date":"2025-04-09T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:59:16","slug":"acclaimed-romanian-filmmaker-corneliu-porumboiu-to-shoot-new-project-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4521","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu to shoot new project in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu will shoot his first film in more than six years in French and in France, where he now lives. The writer-director told Variety<\/a> more about the new film at Visions du R\u00e9el, a film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, which held a retrospective of his films.<\/p>\n

The project is currently in the casting phase and production will likely start in September, with ongoing financing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lead producer for the film is France\u2019s Lumen, the company founded last year by Juliette Schrameck, the former managing director of MK2 Films. The latter, which was the international sales agent on his last film \u201cThe Whistlers,\u201d is a minority producer.<\/p>\n

The co-producers are Romania\u2019s Mobra Films, the company of Palme d\u2019Or winner Cristian Mungiu, and Germany\u2019s Komplizen Film, which was also a producing partner on \u201cThe Whistlers.\u201d Porumboiu\u2019s production company, 42 Km Film, is not attached to the project.<\/p>\n

While the title of the movie was not confirmed, it was previously referred to as \u201cThe Costume.\u201d Porumboiu has identified locations near his home in Biarritz, France, and told Variety that the movie will be different from previous works.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Corneliu Porumboiu\u2019s 2019 film \u201cThe Whistlers\u201d was largely shot on the island of La Gomera in the Canaries, and featured an ancient whistling language. His previous fiction features, such as \u201c12:08 East of Bucharest,\u201d \u201cPolice, Adjective,\u201d \u201cWhen Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism,\u201d and \u201cThe Treasure,\u201d were all shot in Romania and in Romanian.<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Inquam Photos | Raul Stef)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu will shoot his first film in more than six years in French and in France, where he now lives. The writer-director told Variety more about the new film at Visions du R\u00e9el, a film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, which held a retrospective of his films. The project is currently in the […]<\/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-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}