By Michael Atkinson
Maybe it's jumping the gun to say so, but is the Romanian New Wave kaput already? The latest and most-Cannes-honored post-postmodern, hyperrealist, ex-dictatorship, young-auteur film movement seems to have already fizzled . after Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (2007) emerged with last year's Palme D'Or, nothing new has appeared at the world's festivals from Mungiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Catalin Mitulescu or Radu Jude, at a time when they should be leaping on their global visibility and market success like five-year-olds on a summer puddle. In his prime, Godard would've churned out five features and three shorts in the three years since the scent of Romanian sulfur first hit the air with Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" (2005). Who knows what's keeping them (Puiu hasn't had a credit in three years), or what bureaucratic Kafka-ness they must battle to get one of their extraordinarily inexpensive movies made,...
Maybe it's jumping the gun to say so, but is the Romanian New Wave kaput already? The latest and most-Cannes-honored post-postmodern, hyperrealist, ex-dictatorship, young-auteur film movement seems to have already fizzled . after Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (2007) emerged with last year's Palme D'Or, nothing new has appeared at the world's festivals from Mungiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Catalin Mitulescu or Radu Jude, at a time when they should be leaping on their global visibility and market success like five-year-olds on a summer puddle. In his prime, Godard would've churned out five features and three shorts in the three years since the scent of Romanian sulfur first hit the air with Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" (2005). Who knows what's keeping them (Puiu hasn't had a credit in three years), or what bureaucratic Kafka-ness they must battle to get one of their extraordinarily inexpensive movies made,...
- 6/17/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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