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Following a string of critical acclaim in recent years for the films The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 12:08 East of Bucharest, The Paper Will Be Blue and last year’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Romania has emerged as one of the world’s most creative and cutting-edge filmmaking cultures. The Film Society of Lincoln Center is currently offering New Yorkers the rare chance to delve deep into that country’s rich artistic tradition in Shining Through a Long, Dark Night: Romanian Cinema, Then and Now, at the Walter Reade Theater, April 16–27. For more Film Center coverage, check out the New Directors/New Films series. 

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The new Romanian movement

Highlights:

LOVE SICK begins in voice-over as Kiki (Maria Popistasu), a young college student, explains how on her very first day at university she met Alex (Ioana Barbu) and immediately fell in love with her. Tudor Giurgiu’s accomplished first feature then pieces together the development of that relationship, capturing the process of their opening up to each other both emotionally and physically. Alex is a country girl, for whom college is a chance to escape from the provinces forever. Kiki’s from Bucharest, and sees college as just one more new adventure among many others she’d like to experience. Add to the mix Kiki’s brother Sandu (Tudor Chirila), who shows up a little too frequently and whose relationship with his sister has a certain mysterious edge. As incarnated by his wonderful young cast, Giurgiu’s characters never stand for or represent their attractions—they live them, seeing them simply as part of their lives.

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Director Tudor Giurgiu chats about the film, the new Romanian movement and being creative with his cinema in his country.

Happenings:

Following a string of critical acclaim in recent years for the films The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 12:08 East of Bucharest, The Paper Will Be Blue and last year’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Romania has emerged as one of the world’s most creative and cutting-edge filmmaking cultures.  The Film Society of Lincoln Center is currently offering New Yorkers the rare chance to delve deep into that country’s rich artistic tradition in Shining Through a Long, Dark Night: Romanian Cinema, Then and Now, at the Walter Reade Theater, April 16–27.

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