Romania | 1993 | 104 min | dir: Nae Caranfil | cast: Nathalie Bonnifay, Costel Cascaval, George Alexandru, Marius Stanescu, Coca Bloos, Marius Florea In Romanian with English subtitles.
Nae Caranfil's debut feature film offers an ironic, witty and realistic image of Romania during the last years of Communism. The film is an intriguing and humorous story of three Romanians whose lives are revealed to be strongly intertwined as the film progresses. Caranfil's talent for recognizing humour and humanity in the extremely grim circumstances of those years - which is so prominent in his later works (Asfalt Tango and Filantropica) - is evident here as well.
Nae Caranfil (born 1960, Bucharest) is a film director and screenwriter. After a row of shorts shot in the eighties, Caranfil made his feature film debut with Sundays on leave / E Pericoloso Sporgersi (1993) and continued with road movie comedy Asfalt Tango (1996) followed by Dolce Far Niente (1998) and The Rest is Silence (2007).
Romanian Cinematheque is a project developed by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London with the support of National Centre for Cinematography in Romania (CNC).
When: Wed 20 April 2011, 7pm; Where: Romanian Cultural Institute London. Free entrance. To attend please email office@icr-london.co.uk or call 0207 752 0134. Early booking recommended.
